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Aberdeen University 
Studies : No. 7 




The Albemarle Papers 



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UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN. 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS. 

Convener: Professor James W. H. Trail, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., Curator of the University 
Library. 

UNIVERSITY STUDIES. 

General Editor: P. J. Anderson, M.A., LL.B., Librarian to the University. 



No. I. — Roll of Alumni in Arts of the University and King's College of Aberdeen, 1596-1860. 
Edited by P. J. Anderson. 1900. 

No. 2. — Records of Old Aberdeen, 1157-1891. Edited by Alexander Macdonald Munro, 
F.S.A. Scot. Vol. L 1900. 

No. 3. — Place Names of West Aberdeenshire. By the late James Macdonald, F.S.A. Scot. 
1900. 

No. 4. — The Family of Burnett of Leys. By the late George Burnett, LL.D., Lyon King of 
Arms. 1901. 

No. 5. — Records of Invercauld, 1547-1828. Edited by the Rev. John Grant Michie, M.A. 
1901. 

No. 6. — Rectorial Addresses delivered in the Universities of Aberdeen, 1835-1900. Edited by 
P. J. Anderson. 1902. 

No. 7. — The Albemarle Papers, 1746-48. Edited by Charles Sanford Terry, M.A., Lecturer 
in History in the University. 1902. 

No. 8. — The House of Gordon. Edited by John Malcolm Bulloch, M.A. Vol. L 1902. 



The Albemarle Papers 

Being the Correspondence of 

William Anne, Second Earl of Albemarle 

ComiTiandei"-in-Chiet in Scotland, 1 746-1 747 



With an Appendix of Letters from Andrew Fletcher, Lord 
Justice-Clerk, to the Duke of Newcastle, 1 746-1 748 



Edited with Introduction and Notes 

By 

Charles Sanford Terry, M.A. 

Lecturer in History in the University ot Aberdeen 



Volume I. 



Aberdeen 

Printed for the University 

1902 



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PREFACE. 

The documents printed in these volumes are drawn chiefly from 
the State Papers, Scotla7zd, Geo. II., in the Record Office. A 
few are from the Addit. MSS. in the British Museum. A large 
number are from originals in the possession of Colonel H. W. 
Feilden, C.B., to whose kindness in placing his collection at its 
disposal the Club is much indebted. The originals are in the 
Library of Dunipace House, Larbert, The Club is also indebted 
to the Earl of Albemarle for permission to reproduce the portraits 
of the second and third Earls in his collection. 

In the Introduction, which prefaces the second volume, I 
have drawn attention to the most material points upon which 
the papers in these volumes give new or additional information. 



C. S. T. 



King's College, Old Aberdeen, 
\(^th August, 1902. 



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The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Perth, 

Feb. 17, 1746 . I 

The same to the same, Aberdeen, March 5 . . . . 2 

The same to the Duke of Richmond [?], Nairn, April 15 . 3 

The same to the Duke of Newcastle, Fort Augustus, June 14 4 
The same to the Duke of Richmond [?], Fort Augustus, 

June 17 .... . ... 6 

The Duke of Newcastle to the Lord Justice-Clerk, White- 
hall, July II 7 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Fort 

Augustus, July 13 ....... 8 

The same to the same. Fort Augustus, July 22 . . . 10 

The same to the same, Fort Augustus, July 25 . . . 11 
Sir Everard Fawkener to the Earl of Albemarle, Edinburgh, 

July 31 12 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Fort 

Augustus, Aug. I ..<..... 14 

George Douglas to Major Roper, Fort William, Aug. i . 15 

Brigadier Mordaunt to the Earl of Albemarle, Perth, Aug. i 15 

Robert Turnbull to the same, Dumbarton Castle, Aug. i . 17 

The same to Patrick Lindsay, Dumbarton Castle, Aug. i . 19 

Major Chabane to the Earl of Albemarle, Montrose, Aug. 2 19 

Lord Sempill to the same, Inverness, Aug. 2 ... 20 

The Earl of Cassillis to the same, Edinburgh, Aug. 2 . . 21 

Lieutenant-Colonel Dunbar to the same, Inverness, Aug. 2 22 

Dugald Campbell to the same, Inverness, Aug. 2 . . 22 

Lord Balgonie to the same, Inverness, Aug. 2 . . . 2^ 

Colonel Borland to the same, London, Aug. 3 , , . 24 



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Captain Carolina Scott to the same, Ardsheil, Aug. 3, 1746 
John Maclachlan to the same, Fort WiUiam, Aug. 3 . 
Lieut. -Col. Jackson to Major Roper, Aberdeen, Aug. 3 
The Earl of Ancram to the Earl of Albemarle, Aberdeen 

Aug. 3 

The Magistrates of Aberdeen to the same, Aberdeen, Aug. 3 
Commodore Smith to the same, Kerrera, Aug. 3 
Major-General Bland to the same, Stirling, Aug. 3 
Major-General Campbell to the same, Horseshoe Bay, Aug. 4 
Commodore Smith to the same, Kerrera, Aug. 4 
Lord Lewis Drummond to the same, Inverness, Aug. 4 
The Magistrates of Aberdeen to the Lord Justice-Clerk 

Aberdeen, Aug. 4 ...... 

Brigadier Mordaunt to the Earl of Albemarle, Perth, Aug. 4 
Alexander Campbell to the same, Fort William, Aug. 4 
Major-General Blakeney to the same, Inverness, Aug. 4 
Enclosure — Colonel Batereau to Major-General Blakeney 

Inverness, Aug. 4 . 
Major Belford to the Earl of Albemarle, Edinburgh, Aug. 4 
Lieutenant-Colonel Cunningham to the same, Edinburgh 

Aug. 4 

rCaptain Hamilton to the Lord Justice-Clerk, Forfar, Aug. 4 
I The Lord Justice-Clerk to Captain Hamilton, Edinburgh 

I Aug. 9 

Captain Monro of Culcairn to the Earl of Albemarle, Loch 

Broom, Aug. 4 ...... . 

Enclosure /.—Kenneth Mackenzie, etc., to Captain Monro 

Loch Broom, Aug. 4 

Enclosure- II.— An Order by Captain Monro, Loch Broom 

Aug. 4 

Dugald Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle, Inverness, Aug. 5 
The Lord Justice-Clerk to the same, Edinburgh, Aug. 5 
The Magistrates of Aberdeen to the same, Aberdeen, Aug. 5 
Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell to the same, Strontian, Aug. 5 
Captain Mackay to the same. Loch Broom, Aug. 5 . 
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Lieutenant-Colonel Jackson to Major Roper, Aberdeen, 

Aug. 6, 1746 

The Earl of Ancram to the Earl of Albemarle, Aberdeen, 

Aug. 6 ......... . 

The same to Major Roper, Aberdeen, Aug. 6 . . . 
Major Rufane to the same, Fort William, Aug. 6 
Commodore Smith to the Earl of Albemarle, Kerrera, Aug. 7 
Enclosure — ^An Account of the Disposition of His Majesty's 

Ships .......... 

Brigadier Mordaunt to the Earl of Albemarle, Perth, Aug. 7 
Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell to the same, Strontian, Aug. 7 
Major-General Blakeney to the same, Inverness, Aug. 7 
Lord Sempill to the same, Inverness, Aug. 7 
The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Fort 

Augustus, Aug. 8 

Enclosure I. — List of Prisoners delivered to Commodore 

Smith, Aug. 3 

Enclosure II. — Declaration of Captain Felix O'Neil, Fort 

Augustus, Aug. 7 ...... 

(The Magistrates of Aberdeen to the Lord Justice-Clerk 
Aberdeen, Aug. 8 . 
The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Magistrates of Aberdeen and 
the Earl of Ancram, Edinburgh, Aug. 10 






Viscount Arbuthnott to the Earl of Albemarle, Arbuthnott 
House, Aug. 8 ...... . 

Major-General Campbell to the same. Horseshoe Bay 

Aug. 8 

Sheriff Grant to the Lord Justice-Clerk, Grantsfield, Aug. 8 
Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle, Inver- 
ness, Aug. 8 ........ . 

Alexander Campbell to the same, Fort William, Aug. 9 
The Lord Justice-Clerk to the same, Edinburgh, Aug. 9 
The Master of Lovat to the Earl of Loudoun, Calgary, 

Aug. 10 

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Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell to the same,Calve,Aug. 10,1746 
Major-General Blakeney to the same, Inverness, Aug. 10 
Alexander Campbell to the same, Fort William, Aug. 11 
Lord Balgonie to the same, Elgin, Aug. 11 
Lawrence Dundas to the same, Edinburgh, Aug. 1 1 . 
Major Rufane to Major Roper, Fort William, Aug. 11 
The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Fort 
Augustus, Aug. 12 . 
Enclosure. — List of Prisoners sent from Fort William, Aug. 1 1 
The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Earl of Albemarle, Edin- 
burgh, Aug. 12 

The same to the same, Edinburgh, Aug. 12 
Colonel Borland to the same, London, Aug. 12 . 
George Douglas to the same, Fort William, Aug. 12 . 
The Earl of Ancram to the same, Montrose, Aug. 13 . 
The Earl of Lauderdale to the same, Elgin, Aug. 13 . 
Lord Sempill to the same, Aberdeen, Aug. 13 . 
The Secretary at War to the same, London, Aug. 13 
Robert Finlay to Alexander Campbell, Glasgow, Aug. 13 
The Earl of Ancram to the Earl of Albemarle, Arbroath 

Aug. 14 . . 

Enclosure — Information against Andrew Walker and 

Walter Nicol 

The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albemarle, Fort 
Augustus, Aug. 14 . . . . 

Major-General Blakeney to the same, Inverness, Aug. 15 
The Secretary at War to the same, London, Aug. 1 5 . 
Robert Finlay to the same, Glasgow, Aug. 15 . 
Colonel Naizon to Major-General Bland, Ayr, Aug. 16 
The Magistrates of Aberdeen to the Earl of Albemarle 
Aberdeen, Aug. 16 ..... . 

Colonel Wilkinson to the same, London, Aug. 16 
Lieutenant-Colonel Wright to the same, Dundee, Aug. 17 
Major-General Bland to the same, Stirling, Aug. 17 . 
The Lord Justice-Clerk to the same, Edinburgh, Aug. 18 
Lord Sempill to the same, Aberdeen, Aug. 18 . 



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94. Lieutenant-Colonel Jackson to Major Roper, Aberdeen, 

Aug. 18, 1746 123 

95. The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albemarle, Fort 

Augustus, Aug. 18 ...... . 125 

96. Colonel Borland to the same, London, Aug. 18 . . . 126 

Enclosure — Return of the Battalions of Guards . . 127 

97. Captain Powell to the Earl of Albemarle, Bernera, Aug. 19 128 

98. Robert Finlay to Alexander Campbell, Glasgow, Aug. 19 . 129 

Enclosure — Invoice of Shoes supplied to Fort William . [29 

99. Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle, Inver- 

ness, Aug. 20 . . . . . . . .130 

100. Captain Wilson to the same, Westminster, Aug. 20 . . 131 

loi. Lieutenant-Colonel Dunbar to the same, Forres, Aug. 20 . 131 

102. Robert Finlay to Major Roper, Glasgow, Aug. 20 . .132 

103. Lord Sempill to the Earl of Albemarle, Aberdeen, Aug. 21 133 

104. The Magistrates of Inverness to Major-General Blakeney, 

Inverness, Aug. 21 . . . . . . .134 

105. The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albemarle, Inverness, 

Aug. 21 135 

106. The Duke of Newcastle to the same, Whitehall, Aug. 22 . 136 

107. Major-General Campbell to the same, Inveraray, Aug. 22 . 139 

108. Major-General Skelton to the same, Perth, Aug. 22 . . 141 

109. Lord George Sackville to the same, Dundee, Aug. 22 . 141 
no. Lieutenant Armstrong to Major Roper, Forres, Aug. 22 . 143 

111. John Thomson to the Earl of Albemarle, Edinburgh, Aug. 

22 , 144 

112. Major-General Bland to the same, Stirling, Aug. 22 . . 149 

113. Duncan Grant to Edward Burt, Inverness, Aug. 22 . . 152 

Enclosure — Hatch Moody to Humphrey Colquhoun, Aug. 5 153 
J 14. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 
burgh, Aug. 23 154 

115. Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle, Inverness, 

Aug. 23 154 

116. Major-General Campbell to the same, Inveraray, Aug. 23 . 155 

117. Lord Braco to the same, Rothiemay, Aug. 23 . . . 156 

Enclosure — List of Lord Brace's servants . . .157 



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1 1 8. Major-General Bland to the Earl of Albemarle, Stirling, 

Aug. 23, 1746 158 

119. John Thomson to the same, Edinburgh, Aug. 23 . .159 

120. Robert Turnbull to the same, Dumbarton Castle, Aug. 23 . 162 

121. Lieutenant-Colonel Clayton to the same, Fern Hill, Aug. 23 163 

122. Lieutenant-Colonel Howard to the same, Carlisle, Aug. 23 163 

123. Colonel Dejean to the same, Banff, Aug. 23 . . . 165 

Enclosure — Report of the Quarters of Colonel Dejean's 

Regiment . . . . . . . . . 166 

124. Major-General Skelton to the Earl of Albemarle, Perth, 

Aug. 24 166 

125. Duncan Campbell to the same, Inveraray, Aug. 24 . . 167 

126. The Secretary at War to the same, War Office, Aug. 25 . 168 

Enclosure — Officers summoned to the Court-Martial upon 

Major-General Oglethorpe ...... 168 

127. James Colquhoun to Major-General Campbell, Dumbarton, 

Aug. 25 169 

128. Sir Harry Innes to the Earl of Albemarle, Elgin, Aug. 25 . 169 

129. Lord Fortrose to Major-General Blakeney, Brahan Castle, 

Aug. 25 171 

Enclosure I. — The Chevalier de Lancize to , Aug. 14 171 

Enclosure II. — The Chevalier de Lancize to , Aug. 24 172 

130. Colonel Borland to the Earl of Albemarle, London, Aug. 26 173 

131. The Secretary of War to the same, War Office, Aug. 26 . 174 

132. Major Forrester to the same, Perth, Aug. 26 . . . 175 

133. Major-General Skelton to the same, Perth, Aug. 26 . . 176 

134. Colonel Naizon to the same, Ayr, Aug. 26 . . . . 177 

135. James Campbell to , Balquhidder, Aug. 26 . . 177 

136. Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle, Inver- 

ness, Aug. 27 . . . . . . . .178 

137. Major Rufane to the same. Fort William, Aug. 27 . . 179 

138. The Earl of Loudoun to the same, Inverness, Aug. 27 . 180 

139. Major-General Bland to the same, Stirling, Aug. 27 . . 181 

Enclosure — Captain Cunningham to Major-General Bland, 

Crieff, Aug. 24 184 

140. Lord Sempill to the Earl of Albemarle, Aberdeen, Aug. 27 . 185 



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142. Captain Armstrong to Colonel Borland, Aug. 27 . .187 
Colonel Dejean to the Earl of Albemarle, Banff, Aug. 27 , 188 
Major-General Skelton to the same, Perth, Aug. 28 . . 189 
Captain Powell to the same, Bernera, Aug. 28 . . . 190 
Major-General Bland to Major Roper, Stirling, Aug. 29 . 191 
Lord Sempill to the Earl of Albemarle, Aberdeen, Aug. 29 . 193 

148. The Magistrates of Aberdeen to the Lord Justice-Clerk, 

Aberdeen, Aug. 29 ...... . 193 

Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle, Inver- 
ness, Aug. 30 ....... . 195 

Captain Morgan to the same, Aberdeen, Aug. 30 . , 197 

Lord George Sackville to the same, Dundee, Aug. 30 . 197 

152. Captain Burton to the same, Westminster, Aug. 30 . . 198 

153. Colonel Borland to the same, London, Aug. 30 . . . 199 

Enclosure — The Return of the Battalions of Guards . 200 
Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle, Inver- 
ness, Aug. 31 ........ 200 

Disposition of Quarters for the Troops in Scotland, Aug. 31 201 
A- Return of Fifteen Battalions of Foot in North Britain, 

Sept. I 204 

A Return of Lord Loudoun's Regiment, Sept. i . . . 207 

158. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Sept. I 208 

Enclosure I. — The same to the Earl of Loudoun, Edinburgh, 

Aug. 27 213 

Enclosure II. — Certificate of Hugh Eraser's State of Health, 

Inverness, Aug. 22 . , . . . . .214 

159. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Sept. 6 214 

Enclosure I. — Relation concerning the Death of Captain 

Monro of Culcairn . . . . . . .216 

Enclostire II. — Information concerning Alexander Garden 

of Troup 217 

Enclosure III. — The Memorial of Captain Monro of Cul- 
cairn . . . . . . . . . .218 



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i6o. Captain Fergusson to the Earl of Albemarle, H.M.S. 

Furnace, Sept. 8, 1746 . . . . . .219 

161. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Sept. 9 ....... . 220 

Enclosure I. — Major-General Campbell to the Earl of 

Albemarle, Inveraray, Sept. 3 . . . . .221 
Enclosure 11. — Memorial of the Justices of the Peace, etc., 

of Argyllshire, Aug. 20 . . . . . . . 222 

Enclosure III. — Scheme of Forming a Chain from Loch 

Shiel to the Water of Leven 225 

Enclosure IV. — The Return of Five Regiments of Dragoons 

in North Britain, Sept. i 226 

162. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Sept. 13 227 

Enclosure I. — Donald Campbell to Archibald Campbell, 

Island Stalker Castle, Sept. 5 228 

Enclosure II. — Donald Campbell [?] to Archibald Camp- 
bell, Sept. 6 230 

Enclosure III. — James Paterson to Lieutenant-General 

Handasyde, Sept. 12 . . . . . . . 230 

Enclosure IV. — The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albe- 
marle, Fort Augustus, Sept. 9 231 

Enclosure V. — An Estimate of Barrack Bedding for Edin- 
burgh Castle, Sept. 12 234 

163. The Earl of Albemarle to Andrew Stone, Edinburgh, Sept. 20 234 

164. The same to the Duke of Newcastle, Edinburgh, Sept. 23 . 235 

Enclosure — Intelligence . . . . . . . 236 

165. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Sept. 24 ....... . 242 

Enclosure I. — The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albe- 
marle, Fort Augustus, Sept. 20 . . . . . 243 

Enclosure II. — ^neas Macdonell of Scotus to the Earl of 

Loudoun, Sept. 18 ....... 243 

Enclosure III. — Depositions against Lady Nairn, Lady 

Lude, and James Scott, Aug. 25 .... 244 

Enclosure IV. — Sir Alexander Macdonald to Clanranald, 

Monkstat, Jan. 25 259 



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i66. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 
burgh, Sept. 25, 1746 ...... 

Enclosure I. — Deposition of Archibald Macdonald 
Enclosure II. — John Maclachlan to the Earl of Albemarle 
Fort WilHam, Sept. 21 

167. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Sept. 27 ...... . 

Enclosure — Intelligence ...... 

168. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Sept. 30 ...... . 

Enclosure — Declaration of Donald Macdonald, Edinburgh 
Sept. 28 

169. A Return of Fifteen Battalions of Foot in North Britain 

Oct. 6 

170. A Return of Lord Loudoun's Regiment, Oct. 6 . 

171. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Oct. 8 

Enclosure I. — Lachlan Maclean to Captain Macleod of 

Talisker, Sept. 22 ...... 

Enclosure II. — Intelligence, Sept. 24 . . . 

172. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Oct. 15 . 

173. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Oct. 15 

Enclosure I. — Intelligence ..... 

Enclosure II. — Declaration of John McHevoul, Fort 

William, Oct. 4 

Enclostire III. — Intelligence, Oct. 12 

174. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Oct. 27 ...... . 

175. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Oct. 28 

Enclosure — Intelligence, Lochaber, Oct. 23 

176. The Earl of x\lbemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Nov. 4 ...... . 

Enclosure — Intelligence received from Appin, Oct. 29 

177. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

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burgh, Nov. 15, 1746 

Enclosure I. — Intelligence from the Hills ... 

Enclosure II. — Memorial concerning the Disaffected High- 
lands ......... 

Enclosure III. — Intelligence, Nov. 4 . 

Enclosure IV. — Colonel Duroure to the Earl of Albemarle 
Fort WilHam, Nov. 5 

Enclosure V. — Memorial of the County of Ross 

179. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Nov. 22 ...... . 

Enclosure I. — The Lord Advocate to the Earl of Albemarle 

Nov. 21 

Enclosure II. — List of Persons in the Rebellion not yet 

apprehended ........ 

180. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Nov. 25 ...... . 

Enclosure I. — Instructions for the Dutch Recruiting 

Officers, Nov. 24 . 
Enclosure II. — Declaration of John Martin 

181. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Nov. 28 ...... . 

182. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Dec. 6 

Enclosure — A Scheme for civilising Lochiel's Country 

183. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Dec. 13 . 

184. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Dec. 15 

Enclosure — Intelligence ...... 

185. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Dec. 16 ...... . 

Enclosure I. — Captain O'Neil's Statement, Edinburgh 

Dec. 15 

Enclosure II. — Major Kennedy's Statement, Edinburgh 

Dec. 15 

Enclosure III. — Donald Macdonald's Statement, Edin 

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1 86. The Earl of Albemarle to the Earl of Sutherland, Edin- 

burgh, Dec. i8, 1746 

187. The same to the Duke of Newcastle, Edinburgh, Dec. 20 

Enclosure I. — Statement of Captain O'Brien, Edinburgh 

Dec. 18 

Enclosure II. — Intelligence, Dec. 7 . 

188. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Dec. 24 ...... . 

189. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Dec. 24 . ' . 

Enclosure I. — Major-General Huske to the Earl of Albe 
marie, Dec. 20 ...... . 

Enclosure II. — Copy of a Warrant granted by Lord Justice 
Clerk 

Enclosure III. — John Simpson to the Earl of Loudoun 
Tilbury, Nov. 26 . 

190. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Jan. 9, I747 

191. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Jan. 9 . 

192. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Jan. 27 

Enclosure — The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albemarle 
Inverness, Jan. 17 

193. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Feb. 2 ...... . 

Enclosure I. — Robert Craigie to the Earl of Albemarle 

Edinburgh, Feb. i ..... . 

Enclosure II. — Captain Parker to the Earl of Albemarle 

H.M.S. Raven, Jan. 27 

Enclosure III. — Copies of Passes granted by the Lord 

Justice-Clerk and the Lord Advocate . 

194. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Feb. 5 ...... . 

Enclosure I. — Intelligence, Feb. 2 and 3 . 

Enclosure II. — Archibald Campbell of Stonefield to the 

Earl of Albemarle, Inveraray, Feb. 5 

195. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Feb. 9 ...... . 



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Enclosure — Intelligence, Feb. 5, 1747 .... 367 

196. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Feb. II . 368 

Enclosure I. — Account of a Journey through the North- 

East Highlands 370 

Enclosure II. — Intelligence, Feb. 2 371 

197. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Feb. 14 . 374 

Enclosure I. — Archibald Campbell to the Earl of Albe- 
marle, Inveraray, Feb. 11 ..... 375 
Enclosure II. — Substance of J. D.'s Examination . . 176 

198. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Feb. 19 377 

Enclosure I. — Petition of the Corporation of Stirling . 378 

Enclosure II. — Major-General Bland to the Magistrates of 

Stirling, London, Jan. 31 . . . . . • 380 

199. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Feb. 20 381 

Enclosure — Receipt for the French Officers, Berwick, 

Feb. 18 382 

200. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Feb. 25 382 

201. The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Feb. 28 385 



VOL. II. 



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Introduction xxix-lxxxvii \^, 

Correspondence of the Lord Justice-Clerk, 1746-1748. 

I, The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 
burgh, July 2, 1746 389 

Enclosure I. — The same to Sir Everard Fawkener, Edin- 
burgh, June 30 ....... . 390 

Enclosure II. — Sir Everard Fawkener to the Lord Justice- 
Clerk, Fort Augustus, June 26 391 



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NO. PAGE 

2. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, July 12, 1746 . . . ,. . . .392 

Enclosure I. — Intelligence ...... 393 

Enclosure II. — List of Rebel Prisoners confined in the 

several Gaols ........ 394 

3. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, July 14 395 

4. The same to the same, Edinburgh, July 15 . . . 397 

5. The same to the same, Edinburgh, July 26 . . . 398 

Enclosure — List of Rebels against whom there is Proof . 399 

6. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, July 27 ....... . 400 

7. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Aug. 7 . . . . 401 

8. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Aug. 9 . . . . 404 

Enclosure I. — Information against Glengarry . . . 405 
Enclosure II. — 'The Earl of Albemarle to the Lord Justice- 
Clerk, Fort Augustus, Aug. 5 .... . 407 
Enclosure III. — The Journal of Mr. Anderson, Aide-de- 

Camp to Major-General Campbell, July 12-28 . . 407 

9. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Aug. II . . 410 

10. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Aug. 14 . . .411 

Enclosure — Inventory of Precognitions, etc., sent to Car- 
lisle 413 

11. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Aug. 14 . . 414 

12. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Aug. 18 . . .415 

13. The same to Andrew Stone, Edinburgh, Sept. 16 . . 417 

Enclosure I. — The same to Philip Carterett Webb, Edin- 
burgh, Sept. 9 . . . . . . . .418 

Enclosure II. — The same to the same, Edinburgh, Sept. 13 420 

14. The Lord Advocate and Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of 

Newcastle, Edinburgh, Oct. 15 421 

15. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the same, Edinburgh, Dec. 16 . 423 

Enclosure — Examination of Benjamin Macbean, Edin- 
burgh, Dec. 16 425 



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NO. 

i6. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 
burgh, Dec. 1 8, 1746 

17. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Dec. 23 

Enclosure — List of the several Episcopal Ministers in 
Edinburgh ........ 

18. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Feb. 4. I747 

19. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Feb. 11 

20. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Feb. 17 

21. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Feb. 23 

22. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Feb. 25 

23. The same to Andrew Stone, Edinburgh, March 5 

24. The same to the same, Edinburgh, March 9 

25. The same to the Duke of Newcastle, Edinburgh, March 20 

26. The same to the same, Edinburgh, April 9 . 

Enclosure I. — Captain Campbell to the Lord Justice-Clerk 
Taybridge, March 19 ..... . 

Enclosure 77.— Declaration of Francis Russell, Edinburgh 
April 4 

Enclosure III. — Major Colquhoun to the Lord Justice- 
Clerk, April 5 . . . 

27. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, April 14 , 

28. The same to the same, Edinburgh, April 17 

29. The same to the same, Edinburgh, April 25 

Enclosure I. — Declaration of David Napier, April 25 
Enclosure II. — William Drummond of Balhaldie to Francis 
Russell, May 14, 1736 

30. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, May 9, 1747 

31. The same to the same, Saltoun, May 19 . . . 

32. The same to the same, Saltoun, Aug. 29 . . . 

Enclosure I. — Obligation by the Master of Lovat, Edin- 
burgh, Aug. 12 

Enclosure 77.— Protest on behalf of the Earl of Stair 
Aug I 



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Enclosure III. — Schedule of the Protest of John Earl of 

Stair 

Enclosure IV. — Lord Minto to the Lord Justice-Clerk 

Aug. 25, 1747 

Enclosure V. — James Carmichael to the same, Edinburgh 

June 19 ........ 

2)2,. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Oct. 4 . 

34. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Oct. 20 

Enclosure I. — The same to some of the Sheriffs, Edinburgh 

Oct. 17 

Enclosure II. — Intelligence, Perthshire 

35. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Oct. 31 

36. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Nov. 3 . 

Enclosure I. — Donald Campbell to the Lord Justice-Clerk 

Airds, Oct. 25 

Enclosure II. — The Collector of Customs at Fort William 

to the same, Oct. 26 ..... . 

Enclosure III. — Mr. Douglas to the same, Fort William 

Oct. 27 

^7. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Nov. 5 

Enclosure — The Edinburgh Evening Coiirant, Nov. 5 

38. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Nov. 21 . 
Enclosure I. — Memorial of Captain James St. Clair . 
Enclosure II. — The Earl of Findlater and Seafield to the 

Lord Justice-Clerk, Cullen House, Nov. 4 
Enclosure III. — Intelligence, Skye, Nov. 6 
Enclosure IV. — The Duke of Cumberland to the Duke of 

Newcastle ........ 

39. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin 

burgh, Dec. 4 ...... . 

Enclosure — Proposals for civilising the Highlands 



458 

459 
459 

460 
462 

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468 

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40. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Dec. IS, 1747 492 

Enclosure I. — Intelligence, Dunkeld, Dec. 9 . , . 495 
Enclosure II. — Examination of John Murray . . . 495 
Enclosure III. — The Lord Justice-Clerk to George Miller, 

Edinburgh, Dec. 11 497 

Enclosure IV. — Information against James Davidson . 498 
Enclosure V. — List of Persons to be assisting in the execu- 
tion of the Disarming Act ...... 503 

Enclosure VI. — List of Officers of the Army proposed to be 

Justices of Peace ........ 503 

Enclosure VII. — Alexander Garden to the Lord Justice- 
Clerk, Edinburgh, Dec. 15 504 

41. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Dec. 19 ....... . 505 

Enclosure — Mr. Douglas to the Lord Justice-Clerk, Fort 

William, Dec. 9 ....... . 506 

42. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Dec. 24 507 

Enclosure — Process of Sentence against the Rev. George 

Semple .......... 507 

43. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Bruns- 

tane, Dec. 31 515 

Enclosure — The same to George Miller, Dec. 29 . .516 

44. The same to the Duke of Newcastle, Edinburgh, Jan. 4, 1748 517 

Enclosure — Answer to a Querie upon the Laws concerning 

Episcopal Meeting-houses in Scotland . . . -517 

45. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Saltoun, 

Jan. 19 518 

Enclosure — The Deputy-Sheriff of Kincardineshire to the 

Lord Justice-Clerk, Stonehaven, Jan. 12 . . . 520 

46. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Jan. 28 524 

Enclosure — Intelligence . . . . . . -525 

47. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Feb. 3 . 526 

Enclosure — Intelligence, Jan. 26 527 



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^O. PAGE 

48. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Edin- 

burgh, Feb. 6, 1748 .528 

49. The same to the same, Edinburgh, Feb. 29 . . . 529 
^ Enclosure I. — Memorial and Queries . . . .531 

Enclosure II. — List of Deputy-Sheriffs for Scotland, with 

Salaries ......... 536 

Enclosure III. — List of those recommended to be Deputy- 
Sheriffs, and Memoranda relating thereto . . -537 

Enclosure IV. — The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of 

Newcastle, Dec. 10, 1747 543 

50. The same to the same, Edinburgh, March 19, 1748 . . 547 

Enclosure — Declaration of the Deputy-Sheriff of Kincar- 
dineshire, Stonehaven, March 5 . . . . . 549 

51. The Duke of Newcastle to the Lord Justice-Clerk, May 12 

52. The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle, Jed- 

burgh, May 17 550 

Index 551 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 

VOL. I. 

' I. William Anne, second Earl of Albemarle . . Frontispiece 

{From the portrait by Jean Fournier in the possession of the 
Earl of A Ihemarle.) 

PAGE 

^ 2. Tandem Triumphans, translated by the Duke of Cumberland 

with the point of his sword ...... 4 

{From the print published by C. Corbet, May 7, 1746.) 
Nj' 3. " How happy could I be with Either 

Were t'other dear Charmer away." ..... 75 

{From an engraving published in 1746.) 
^ 4. The Stature, Dress and Likeness of the Rebel Lords . . lOi 
. {From an engraving published on Aug. 3, 1746,) 
5. Lord Lovat a Spinning ........ 104 

{From a print published in May, 1746.) 

VOL. n. 

/ 6. George, third Earl of Albemarle .... Frontispiece 

{From the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the possession 
of the Earl of A Ibemarle.) 
V 7. A Jacobite Satire on the Duke of Cumberland . . . 424 

{From an engraving published in 1746.) 
' 8. Bergen op Zoom, 1747 ....... 460 

{From an engraving published in 1747.) 



AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURES. 



VOL. I. 

William Anne Earl of Albemarle 

Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle 

Hugh, Lord Sempill .... 

John Earl of Cassillis .... 

David Lord Balgonie .... 

Captain Carolina Frederick Scott 

William Henry Earl of Ancram . 

Commodore Thomas Smith 

Major-General Humphrey Bland 

Major-General John Campbell of Mamore 

Lord Lewis Drummond 

Major-General William Blakeney 

Colonel John Batereau 

Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, Lord Justice-Clerk 

Captain George Monro of Culcairn 

James Morison, Provost of Aberdeen 

William Mowat, Bailie of Aberdeen 

William Gordon, Bailie of Aberdeen 

James Nicoll, Bailie of Aberdeen 

Lieutenant-Colonel John Campbell 

John Viscount Arbuthnott . 

Simon Eraser, Master of Lovat 

John Earl of Loudoun 

James Earl of Lauderdale 

Henry Fox, Secretary at War 

Major-General H, Skelton 

Lord George Sackville 

William Lord Braco . 

Sir Harry Innes . 

Kenneth Lord Fortrose 

Captain John Fergusson, H.M.S. Furnace 

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ILLUSTRATIONS. 

VOL. I. 

' I. William Anne, second Earl of Albemarle . . Frontispiece 

{From the portrait by Jean Fournier in the possession of the 
Earl of A Ibemarle.) 

PAGE 

•^ 2. Tandem Triumphans, translated by the Duke of Cumberland 

with the point of his sword ...... 4 

{From the print published by C. Corbet, May 7, 1746.) 
N 3. " How happy could I be with Either 

Were t'other dear Charmer away." . . . . . 75 

{From an engraving published in 1746.) 
■I 4. The Stature, Dress and Likeness of the Rebel Lords . . loi 
. {From an engraving published on Aug. 3, 1746.) 
I 5. Lord Lovat a Spinning ........ 104 

{From a print published in May, 1746.) 

VOL. IL 

V 6. George, third Earl of Albemarle .... Frontispiece 

{From the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the possession 
of the Earl of A Ibemarle.) 

V 7. A Jacobite Satire on the Duke of Cumberland . . . 424 

{From an engraving published in 1746.) 

" 8. Bergen op Zoom, 1747 460 

{From an engraving published in 1747.) 



AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURES. 



VOL. I. 



William Anne Earl of Albemarle 

Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle 

Hugh, Lord Sempill . 

John Earl of Cassillis , 

David Lord Balgonie . 

Captain Carolina Frederick Scott 

William Henry Earl of Ancram . 

Commodore Thomas Smith 

Major-General Humphrey Bland 

Major-General John Campbell of Mamore 

Lord Lewis Drummond 

Major-General William Blakeney 

Colonel John Batereau 

Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, Lord Justice-Clerk 

Captain George Monro of Culcairn 

James Morison, Provost of Aberdeen 

William Mowat, Bailie of Aberdeen 

William Gordon, Bailie of Aberdeen 

James Nicoll, Bailie of Aberdeen 

Lieutenant-Colonel John Campbell 

John Viscount Arbuthnott . 

Simon Eraser, Master of Lovat 

John Earl of Loudoun 

James Earl of Lauderdale 

Henry Fox, Secretary at War 

Major-General H. Skelton 

Lord George Sackville 

William Lord Braco . 

Sir Harry Innes . 

Kenneth Lord Fortrose 

Captain John Fergusson, H.M.S, Furnace 

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INTRODUCTION. 

William Anne Keppel, second Earl of Albemarle, whose 
military correspondence during the years 1746-47 
forms the greater portion of the papers printed in Albemarle' 
these volumes, was the son of Arnold Joost van 
Keppel, first Earl of Albemarle, and his wife Geertruid Johanna 
Quirina van der Duyn. He was born at Whitehall on June 
5, 1702, and was baptised at the Chapel Royal, Queen Anne 
being his godmother. His father also had received abundant 
tokens of royal favour. As a lad of nineteen years he had 
accompanied William of Orange to England in 1688 as Page of 
Honour. Eight years later (1696) he was raised to the Peerage 
with the titles of Baron Ashford of Ashford in the county of 
Kent, Viscount Bury of Bury in the county palatine of Lan- 
caster, and Earl of Albemarle, a town and district within the 
Dukedom of Normandy. He also enjoyed the esteem and 
friendship of Queen Anne and George the First. Before his 
death in 17 18, his son, the second Earl, who had been educated 
in Holland, had returned to England and had been gazetted 
in 17 1 7 to the Coldstream Guards. He was appointed to the 
colonelcy of that regiment in 1744. Meanwhile in 1742 he had 
accompanied Lord Stair to Flanders and had been present at 
both Dettingen and Fontenoy.^ After four years' absence he 
returned to England in the autumn of 1745 with the object of 

^Cf. articles on the first and second Earls of Albemarle in Diet. Nat. Biog., vol, xxxi., 
pp. 36, 44. 



X3tX INTRODUCTION. 

serving as a volunteer under the Duke of Cumberland,^ at that 
time confronting the crisis created by Prince Charles's bold 
march to Derby. Albemarle, who had left Flanders at four 
hours' warning, was compelled to leave his horses and equipment 
at Antwerp, and when Cumberland took the field in Scotland 
in 1 746, Albemarle proceeded thither hurriedly with the modest 
outfit of six shirts, and found himself compelled "to borrow, 
hire and buy everything in a strange manner " in that country.^ 
While Cumberland remained at Aberdeen before his advance to 
Culloden, Albemarle was placed in command of the advanced 
post of the army at Strathbogie, " hardly ever pulling off my coat 
and breeches". On April 8 Cumberland left Aberdeen and 
on the nth concentrated his army at Cullen. Albemarle 
joined him there that day.^ To the Duke of Newcastle he had 
already expressed his anxiety for an engagement which " would 
put an end to this cursed and unnatural rebellion," for otherwise 
he feared "these villains will Lead us a dance from one bad 
country to a worse," and he added, "throw y^ worse people I 
ever knew ; for I protest I prefer y^ soil to y^ Inhabitants, for 
more malice, falsehood, cunning, and self interest was never mett 
with in any country whatesoever ".^ Anxious though he was for 
a decisive engagement, it would appear that even on the eve of 
Culloden Albemarle was doubtful whether Prince Charles's army 
would venture to meet Cumberland.^ The victory of April 16, 
in which he commanded the first line of the Duke's army,^ 
proved him incorrect in his anticipations. From Inverness, 
after the battle, he was ordered to Perth, much to his disgust, to 
join the Hessian troops under Prince Frederick of Hesse,^ who 
had landed at Leith on February 8, 1746. They sailed from 
Scotland on June 10, 1746,^ and Albemarle was at once called 

1 Supra, p. 6. ^F.7, ^ P. 3. * P. 2. 

^ Cf. his letter of 15th April, supra, p. 3. ^Dict. Nat. Biog., vol. xxxi., p. 44, 

''Supra, p. 4. ^ Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 289. 



INTRODUCTION. xxxi 

Upon to undertake a duty seemingly not less repugnant to 
him. 

The Duke of Cumberland after his victory at Culloden on 
April 1 6 had remained at Inverness until May 23, 1746. 
On that date he marched to Fort Augustus,^ and on July 18 
vacated the command and proceeded to London.^ General 
Hawley, who had been appointed Commander-in-Chief in Scot- 
land in succession to Sir John Cope, and had been no more 
successful at Falkirk than his predecessor at Prestonpans, had 
been allowed to tender his resignation,^ and to Albemarle's 
chagrin he was appointed his successor. He had no desire, 
he wrote to the Duke of Newcastle on June 14, to be left 
"in this cursed country". "I know y^ people, I know y^ 
country, and that my predecessors have split against a sharpe 
rock," he explained.^ Albemarle, in fact, was anxious to 
accompany Cumberland to Flanders, whither the Duke pro- 
ceeded at the end of the year. Cumberland, however, refused 
to entertain Albemarle's objections,^ and on August 23, 1746, 
the appointment of the new Commander-in-Chief in Scotland 
was gazetted. •* 

On August 22, 1746, the Duke of Newcastle directed a 
despatch to Albemarle urging him in particular to use every 
endeavour to secure the person of Prince Charles.^ The letters 
printed in the first volume sufficiently attest Albemarle's vigi- 
lance in that matter. Otherwise his administration was marked 
by no particular incident. In the somewhat difficult task of 
maintaining good relations with the civil authorities he appears 
to have been successful, and to have acted with judgment and 
tact. He remained at Fort Augustus until August 13, when 
he proceeded to Edinburgh, and remained there, seemingly in 

^ Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 284, ^Ibid., vol. viii., p. 342, ^ Supra, p. 6. 

*P. 5. ''P. 9. ^ Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 399. '^ P. 137, supra. 



XXxii INTRODUCTION. 

Sir John Cope's house/ until he vacated the command and 
sailed for Flanders on March 6, 1747.^ At the Peace of 
Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) he was sent to Paris as Minister Pleni- 
potentiary, and in the following year he received the Garter. 
In 1754 he was again despatched upon a mission to Paris, and 
died there suddenly on December 22 of that year. His son 
George Viscount Bury succeeded him.^ 

The English army in Scotland under Cumberland's com- 
mand at Culloden consisted of fifteen battalions of 
Sco^tland!"^ ^" ^^^^' three regiments of hussars, the Duke of King- 
ston's horse, the artillery train under Colonel Belford, 
and some of the Argyllshire militia. The line regiments con- 
sisted of: I St Royal Scots, Midlothian (St. Clair's); 3rd, the 
Buffs, East Kent (Howard's) ; 4th, Royal Lancaster (Barrell's) ; 
8th, Liverpool (Wolfe's) ; 13th, Somersetshire (Pulteney's) ; 
14th, West Yorkshire (Price's); 20th, Lancashire (Bligh's) ; 
2 1 St, Scots Fusiliers, Ayr (Campbell's); 25th, Scottish 
Borderers (Sempill's) ; 27th, Inniskilling Fusiliers (Blake- 
ney's) ; 34th, Border, Carlisle (Cholmondeley's) ; 36th, 
Worcestershire (Fleming's) ; 37th, Hampshire (Munro's later, 
Dejean's) ; 48th, Northamptonshire (Ligomer's, later Con- 
way's) and Batereau's. The three regiments of hussars were 
the 3rd (Bland's) ; loth (Cobham's) ; nth (Lord Mark Ker's). 
Cumberland's effective strength in the battle is given officially 
as 8,811, to which number the infantry battalions furnished 
6,411.^ Four days (April 20) after the Battle of Culloden, 

^Cf. Mr, H. Manners Chichester's article in Diet. Nat. Biog., vol. xxxi., p. 44, where 
the authorities for Albemarle's career are cited. Mr. Chichester has misdated Albemarle's 
command in Scotland to a period subsequent to 1748. 

* On this matter, cf. Notes and Queries, January, 1901, p. 24 ; Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 98 ; 
Home, History of the Rebellion, p. 229 ; Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 216. 



INTRODUCTION. XXxiii 

Skelton's, Handasyde's, Houghton's, and Mordaunt's regiments 
arrived in transports at Leith and after a few days proceeded 
to the Moray Firth to join the army at Inverness. At about 
the same time the StirHng miHtia were called out to guard the 
Fords of Frew, while detachments of the Edinburgh militia 
were stationed along the south bank of the Forth, west of 
Edinburgh, thereby effectually holding the passes from the 
Highlands into the Low country.^ 

With so large a force at his disposal Cumberland resolved 
to follow up his recent victory, and to advance into the heart of 
the Highland country to inflict punishment upon the clansmen 
and their Chiefs. On May 23 he marched from Inverness, 
taking with him Barrell's, Wolfe's, Skelton's, Sackville's, Camp- 
bell's Scots Fusiliers, Houghton's, Dejean's, and Conway's foot, 
with Kingston's horse, and reached Fort Augustus the following 
day.^ A week later (May 31) Houghton's regiment occupied 
Fort William and relieved Guise's regiment, which had with- 
stood the siege of the Fort in the spring.^ The work of 
vengeance was at once and rigorously prosecuted. From Fort 
Augustus parties were sent through the Highland glens. 
" Wherever these came they left nothing that belonged to the 
rebels. They burnt all the houses and carried off the cattle." "^ 
In Appin Campbell's Argyllshire militia were engaged upon the 
same task.^ Loudoun's Independent Companies, which had 

1 Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 237. 

^ Ibid., vol. viii., pp. 241, 284. Major-General Bland, with Price's, Howard's, and 
Cholmondeley's regiments, had preceded the Duke from Inverness on May 16. (Ibid., vol. 
viii., p. 284.) 

^ Ibid., vol. viii., p. 286. Guise's regiment proceeded to Berwick. (Ibid., vol. viii., 
P- 394-) 

■* Ibid., vol. viii., p. 287. This short sentence is sufficiently expressive. Cf. a letter in 
my Rising of 1745, p. 158, and Bishop Forbes's " Barbarities after Culloden," in Chambers, 
jfacobite Memoirs, p. 231. The State Papers in the Record Office contain unpleasant details 
of Cumberland's orgies. 

* :§(ots Magazine, vol, viii,, p. 241. 



XXXIV INTRODUCTION. 

been absent from Culloden, and had preceded Cumberland to 
Fort Augustus, were similarly employed in Lochiel's country 
and in Badenoch.^ 

Meanwhile arrangements had been made for establishing a 
military force in the districts outside the area of actual operations. 
Major-General William Blakeney was left in command at Inver- 
ness after Cumberland's departure on May 23, and had under his 
command there his own, Handasyde's, Mordaunt's, and Batereau's 
regiments,^ Brigadier Mordaunt arrived at Perth on May 19 
with the Royal Scots, Sempill's, and Pulteney's regiments, and 
replaced the Hessians, who embarked at Leith and sailed for 
Flanders on June 10.^ About May 23 Fleming's regiment pro- 
ceeded from Inverness to Aberdeen,^ to the little content, as it 
proved, of the inhabitants. A month earlier (April 23) Cobham's 
dragoons and (April ^0) Lord Ancram with Ker's dragoons had 
left Inverness to guard the eastern coast.^ 

Such remained the military situation in Scotland until Cum- 
berland vacated the command at Fort Augustus on July 18, 
1746. He left Scotland divided into four military districts. 
No. I. stretched from Fort Augustus to Inverness and thence to 
Spey-mouth, and was under the command of Major-General 
Blakeney at Inverness. Within that area the following regi- 
ments were distributed : Houghton's at Fort William, Loudoun's 
regiment and his Independent Companies at Fort Augustus, 
Blakeney's and Batereau's regiments at Inverness, Mordaunt's 
at Nairn, and Handasyde's at Elgin. No. II. included the dis- 
trict from Spey-mouth along the coast to Dundee, and was 

1 Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 240, 241, 284. ^ Ibid., vol. viii., p. 285. 

' Ibid., vol. viii., pp. 240, 289. Cf. p. 4, supra, note i. 

* Ibid., vol. viii., p. 241. More complaints of the army's conduct were presented 
by Aberdeen than any other town in Scotland, so far as the papers in these volumes furnish 
information. 

® Ibid., vol, viii., p. 237. 



INTRODUCTION. XXXV 

garrisoned by Dejean's at Cullen and Fleming's at Aberdeen. 
Major-General Skelton was in command. No. III. was centred 
at Perth, where Major-General Huske and Brigadier Mordaunt 
were placed in command of the Royal Scots, Sackville's and 
Skelton's regiments and the artillery train. No. IV. included 
the district from Stirling southward, and was commanded by 
Major-General Bland and Lord Sempill. Under their super- 
vision were Barrell's, Price's, and Conway's regiments at Stirling, 
the Scots Fusiliers at Glasgow, and Lee's at Canongate, Edin- 
burgh. The horse regiments of St. George, Cobham, Ker, 
Naizon, and Hamilton were sent to grass. ^ At the same time 
the strength of the army in Scotland was diminished by the 
despatch of Wolfe's, Pulteney's, and Sempill's regiments to 
Flanders.^ Howard's Buffs proceeded to Carlisle.^ Cholmon- 
deley's was ordered to Newcastle, and Kingston's horse marched 
to England to disband.* 

Albemarle remained in camp until August 13, when, 
owing to the badness of the weather and the defective equip- 
ment of the troops in clothing and tents,^ he set out from Fort 
Augustus to Edinburgh, leaving Lord Loudoun at Fort Augus- 
tus with his regiment and seventeen Independent Companies 
composed of Macleods, Mackays, Monroes, and Sir Alexander 
Macdonald of Sleat's clan,^ whom Albemarle deemed sufficient 
to " not only suppress any of the Rebells, were they to assemble 
in small Bodies for the Defence of the Cattle, but also apprehend 
the Pretender's Son, if he should remain in this Country "J 

1 Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 342. The above distribution does not appear to have 
been completed until Albemarle broke up the camp at Fort Augustus on August 13. Cf. ibid., 
vol. viii., p. 393, and No. CLV. supra. 

^ They sailed at the beginning of August. — Supra, p. 33. 

•* The regiment reached Glasgow from Stirling on July 30, and on August i marched for 
Carlisle. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 393. 

* They disbanded at Nottingham on September 15. — Ibid,, vol. viii., pp. 342, 441. 

^ Supra, p. 15. '^ Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 394. ''Supra, p. 15. 



XXXVl INTRODUCTION. 

No diminution in the strength of the regular army in 
Scotland took place until March 6, 1747, when Albemarle 
proceeded to Flanders, taking with him Howard's Buffs from 
Carlisle, the Scots Fusiliers, Fleming's, Dejean's and Conway's 
regiments.^ From that date the weakening of the establishment 
in Scotland was rapid. The 2nd battalion of the Royal Scots 
sailed from Leith for Flanders on May 24, 1747, and 
Loudoun's 2nd Hio^hland regiment followed thither from Burnt- 
island on May 30.^ Early in July, 1747, the usual camp was 
formed at Fort Augustus of Skelton's, Handasyde's, Mordaunt's, 
Sackville's and Blakeney's regiments. Houghton's regiment, 
which had replaced Guise's at Fort William in May, 1746, was 
in its turn replaced by Lee's, and St. George's dragoons were 
sent into quarters at Aberdeen and other places upon the 
eastern coast.^ At the end of August, 1 747, two more regiments 
were withdrawn from Scotland : Lee's from Fort William and 
Sackville's from Fort Augustus wer^ despatched to Burntisland 
and sailed for Flanders on September 8. Detachments of one 
hundred men each from Skelton's, Handasyde's, Mordaunt's, 
and Blakeney's regiments at Fort Augustus were sent to garrison 
Fort William in place of Lee's regiment.^ 

About September 10, 1747, the summer camp at Fort 
Augustus broke up and the troops proceeded to winter quarters. 
Skelton's took the place of the composite garrison at Fort 
William. Handasyde's was sent to Perth, where the artillery 
train was also quartered. F'ive of Mordaunt's companies 
garrisoned Edinburgh Castle, and five were placed at Linlith- 
gow and Borrowstouness. Blakeney's was distributed between 
Montrose, Arbroath, Dundee, and St. Andrews. Five companies 
of Barren's, relieved at Edinburgh Castle by Mordaunt's five 

^ Infra, p. 437. ^ Scots Magazine, vol. ix., pp. 247, 248. 

'^Ibid., vol. ix., p. 348. ^Ibid., vol. ix., pp. 402, 452. 



INTRODUCTION. Xxxvii 

companies, moved thence to Stirling. Houghton's regiment, 
lately relieved at Fort William, was now moved from Stirling 
to Glasgow. At Inverness Price's regiment was quartered. 
Batereau's was distributed between Elgin, Banff, Peterhead, and 
Aberdeen. Two additional companies of the ist and two of the 
2nd battalion of the Royal Scots were established at Cupar- 
Fife and Kirkcaldy respectively. At Taybridge and Tarland 
were three companies of Lord John Murray's Highlanders, and 
ten companies of Loudoun's were stationed at Ruthven and 
Dingwall. St. George's dragoons occupied Leith, Haddington, 
Duns, and Kelso, and Naizon's were quartered at Newliston, 
Ayr, Stranraer, and Dumfries.^ Such was the distribution of 
the military forces in Scotland when on October 31, 1747, 
Humphrey Bland, lately promoted Lieutenant-General and 
Commander-in-Chief in Scotland in succession to Lord Albe- 
marle, arrived at Edinburgh.- 

That friction should have arisen between the army and the 
civil authorities in Scotland is hardly to be wondered „j^^ ^^^ 
at. Not much more than a generation had passed and the Civil 

(-,,,,,. , -111 Authorities. 

smce Scotland had, m 1707, as her patriots held, 
bartered her independence. The events of 1745 had offered the 
first opportunity for the War Office at Whitehall to direct opera- 
tions upon a considerable scale in Scotland, and though public 
bodies were ready to recognise in the English army a force 
which was battling for their true interests, it still remained to 
them an army which had come from a distant Macedonia, alien 
in traditions, not over-considerate of Scottish susceptibilities, and 
by no means unready to confound friend and foe. It needs but 
a glance at the correspondence of Albemarle and his officers to 
detect in their minds a fairly rooted conviction that Scotsman 

^ Scots Magazine, vol. ix., p. 453. -Ibid., vol. ix., p. 500. 



Xxxvili INTRODUCTION. 

and Jacobite were convertible terms. Added thereto was a 
scarcely concealed contempt for the country and its people. If 
such was the attitude of the leaders, it is not strange that the 
rank and file and junior officers failed sometimes to deal gently 
with the susceptibilities of the proud people whose saviours they 
claimed to be. Nor was an eighteenth century army trained in 
those habits of restraint which the higher standard of more 
modern times demands. The individual unit of the rank and 
file reverted easily to a state of nature amid the ardours of a 
campaign. The Ten Commandments were suspended with the 
Habeas Corpus Act. Yet, so far as the papers in these volumes 
bear testimony, the conduct of the army in Scotland was by no 
means bad. Cases of flagrant assault were rare, and it is clear 
that Albemarle fully recognised the necessity for maintaining 
harmonious relations with the civil authorities, and that he was 
ready to check any tendency to military v/8/ots on the part of his 
officers. 

From Aberdeen especially lamentations reached the ears of 
Lord Albemarle and the Lord Justice-Clerk, notably over the so- 
called *' riot" which occurred in the town on the night of August 
I, 1746. On that date, the anniversary of the accession of the 
Hanoverian dynasty to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland, 
the officers of Fleming's regiment quartered in Aberdeen met 
to celebrate appropriately the auspicious occasion. The Duke 
of Gordon, who was on his way to London, the Town Clerk and 
the Collector of Customs at Aberdeen were present as guests.^ 
The Earl of Ancram, who commanded what may be termed the 
North-East Military District, had approached the civil authorities 
with the suggestion that the town should be generally illuminated 
in honour of the day. His proposal had been coldly received, 
and various objections had been urged against it. The magis- 

1 Supra, p. 28. 



INTRODUCTION. xxxix 

trates were willing that the bells should be rung and that the flag 
should be hoisted, but the careful authorities had found from 
experience that illuminations occasioned " Noise and Confusion 
upon the Street ". Besides, to be effective on a light August 
evening, the illuminations would have to be at an hour when 
" the Inhabitants ought rather to be at rest ". A message to 
that effect was communicated to the Town Clerk to carry to 
Lord Ancram. He, however, came to the strange conclusion, 
that as the authorities "were not thoroughly to comply with 
Lord Ancram's desire, he thought it better not to send an 
answer".^ The worthy Clerk, though the guest of the officers 
in the evening, does not appear to have offered even a hint that 
objection had been taken to their request, and the conviviality 
of the supper-party was broken into rudely by a messenger, who 
reported that " the mob and some soldiers among them were 
breaking all windows that were not light," those of the Town 
House among others. Prompt measures were taken, and a 
sergeant and twelve men were instantly despatched to Old 
Aberdeen to prevent any outbreak there. The authorities were 
indignant, the more so since even the officers of Fleming's 
regiment were declared to be implicated in the riot, Captain 
Hugh Morgan in particular. Several swore that Morgan 
incited the mob, and " one who swore heartily " declared that 
the captain himself threw stones at the offending windows. 
Morgan was thereupon arrested by the outraged magistracy, 
his lieutenant-colonel finding bail for his appearance.^ The 
Lord Justice-Clerk was probably sufficiently acute in inferring 
that the officers' zeal for the Royal family was " inflamed per- 
haps with a little too much liquor ".^ The Magistrates, how- 
ever, could find no excuse in loyal excesses. They pursued the 
offending officers with the persistency of the Eumenides on the 

1 p. 194. 2 Pp. 28-31. ' p. 42. 



xl INTRODUCTION. 

trail of Orestes. On August 4 they complained to the Lord 
Justice-Clerk of the " Attrocious Riot". The inhabitants had 
been " much frighted and intimidated," they declared ; a " vast 
many" windows had been broken, "particularly the Windows of 
the Townhouse and the Warehouse of George Forbes, wherein 
Several Mirrours and other goods ^yere broke and spoil'd ".^ On 
the following day (August 5) they informed Lord Albemarle 
that the " reall Damnages " occasioned by the riot amounted to 
^130 "besides Costs ".^ " If it had been only a few panes of 
glass that had been broke," they wrote again on August 16, 
" neither we nor any of the Inhabitants would have taken the 
least notice of it. But there were many hundreds of panes 
broke, and upwards of two hundred familys suffered on this 
occasion." ^ On August 29 the Magistrates wrote to the Lord 
Justice-Clerk. A committee of tradesmen had been appointed, 
they told him, and had estimated the damages occasioned by the 
riot at ^129 3s., in addition to the "expenses of consulting- 
Lawyers and sending several Expresses South and North, and 
allowance to Tradesmen who were employ'd severall days in 
takeing up account of the Damage," items which added about 
^20 to the sum of their claim."^ 

Five days after the disturbance of August i the authorities 
of Aberdeen were again outraged by the conduct of the military. 
By Lord Ancram's order two merchants of the town, Walter 
Nicol and Andrew Walker, were summarily apprehended on 
August 6 and were committed prisoners to the guard. Both 
men had returned to Aberdeen after Cumberland had left the 
town in April, and in accordance with instructions, they and all 
others who had been absent during the Duke's visit were closely 
examined as to their movements. That ordeal the two men had 
successfully faced. On what grounds, therefore, were they appre- 

i p, 41. ■^ p. 56, 3 p. 116. * p. 194. 



INTRODUCTION. xli 

hended ? Such was the case as it was represented to the Lord 
Justice-Clerk/ There can be Httle question that both Nicol and 
Walker were keen Jacobites, and had deemed it advisable to 
avoid Cumberland's immediate neighbourhood. The information 
against them, upon which Lord Ancram had acted, showed that 
in November, 1745, when Lord John Drummond's troops ap- 
peared on the eastern coast, Nicol and Walker were emboldened 
to publicly assert their Jacobite sympathies, and when a detach- 
ment of those troops landed at Aberdeen, both men " join'd them 
with a Huza, their hats waving in their hands," and "joind 
the Rebels at reading the Manifestos and drinking treasonable 
healths " at the Market Cross.^ But if the guilt of the two men 
was clearly established, the circumstances of their apprehension 
were irregular, and the Lord Justice-Clerk found it necessary to 
admonish Lord Ancram and to remind him that the town of 
Aberdeen was under a regular magistracy, and that the town's 
gaol and not the military guard was the proper place wherein 
to confine prisoners charged with civil offences.^ 

Yet another offence on the part of the military was the 
subject of a complaint by Alexander Grant, the Sheriff of Aber- 
deen. On the morning of August 7 his house, Grantsfield, now 
Midmar Castle, was visited by a party of Fleming's regiment, 
who examined it thoroughly, in spite of his vehement protest, 
upon the plea that he was suspected of harbouring rebels. They 
were induced to abandon their first intention to quarter forty men 
upon him, but proceeding to a neighbouring ale-house, they 
drank " about Seventy Scots pints of Ale and paid nothing for 
it," and committed other reprehensible acts.* 

1 Pp. 76-77. 2 p, 109. 3 p. 78. 

■* p. 82. Grant's sympathies were in fact Jacobite. Lord Albemarle describes him 
{supra, p. 357) as Jacobite " in heart ". His Sheriff-Depute, appointed by him, read the 
Pretender's proclamation at the Market Cross of Aberdeen. I arn indebted to Mr. David Littl^^ 
John, Sheriff-Clerk of Aberdeen, for this information. 

/ 



xlii INTRODUCTION. 

If Fleming's regiment appears to have been singularly un- 
fortunate in its relations with the civil authorities, Cobham's 
dragoons also gave considerable offence by their conduct. 
Viscount Arbuthnott, writing to Lord Albemarle on August 8, 
complained that he had been compelled under threats to sur- 
render his arms, "viz. a silver handed Sword, two mourning 
ones, two pair of pistols for my own use and my servants, and 
a fouling piece for my own diversion when I go to sport ".^ 
Captain Charles Hamilton, of the same regiment, found himself 
involved in legal proceedings at the suit of Thomas Ogilvie of 
Coul for having impounded the cattle of his tenants, and of John 
Watson of Turin, near Forfar, for wrongful imprisonment.^ The 
factor of the sequestered estate of Stanhope at the same time 
preferred a complaint against a party of St. George's dragoons 
who had driven off the cattle and horses from the farm of 
Harrow. The farm of Woodhill, near Dundee, was treated in 
a similar manner by another party of the same regiment. Yet 
another case in which St. George's dragoons were involved 
related to the impounding by Captain Whitney Mackean of 
certain books belonging to John Murray of Broughton and in 
the hands of the Rev. William Wallace, minister of Drummelzier. 
The answers lodged against these various complaints suggest, 
however, that the military authorities were not without good 
grounds for their conduct.'^ 

Of a more serious nature was a complaint against certain 
officers of Howard's Old Buffs at Stirling. On July 29, 1746, 
William Pollock, a wig-maker at Stirling, sent his apprentice to 
Lieutenant Stoyt with a wig which the latter had ordered. The 
Lieutenant expressed himself roundly as highly dissatisfied with 
the wig, and bade the man take it back to his master. The 

^ p. 80. 2 Qj_ supra, p. 13, note 2. 

^ Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 343 et seq. 



Introduction. xliii 

fellow did so, but in an audible sotto voce allowed the Lieutenant 
to understand that his opinion of him was far from complimentary. 
Stoyt thereupon followed him to his shop, beat him with a stick, 
assaulted the wig-maker also, and aided by others of the regiment, 
dragged off the offending apprentice to the guard, when, with 
Lieutenant - Colonel George Howard's approbation, he was 
stripped, tied to halberts and whipped in the market-place. The 
case was at once brought before the Court of Justiciary and a 
precognition of the facts was ordered to be taken.^ The judicious 
intervention of Major-General Bland appears to have brought 
about an amicable settlement of the matter.'^ 

Prince Charles had escaped from the mainland to the Long 
Island three months before Albemarle took over the 
command from Cumberland in July. Of that early Charles's 
period of the Prince's wanderings the papers in the first ? j'^^J^ *° *^^ 
volume contain an account by Captain Felix O'Neil.^ 
O'Neil elsewhere describes himself as having been born at Rome. 
His father had been killed at the battle of Campo Santo, and he 
himself had served in the Spanish army until 1744, when he 
received a commission in Lally's regiment in the French service. 
In March, 1746, he had been sent to Scotland with despatches 
from the French Court to the Young Chevalier.* He had been 
made prisoner shortly after Prince Charles sailed from South 
Uist to Skye on June 28. His capture appears to have been 
regarded as an important one, for Major-General John Campbell, 
writing to Albemarle on August 8,^ says that " by the testi- 
mony of several of the Prisoners I have on Board, He was a 
great favourite with the Young Pretender, and esteem'd as 
one of the Ablest Men in Military matters the French sent 

^ Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 392, and pp. 165 supra, 403 infra. 
2 P. 412. "Pp.^ietseq. •* P. 342. ^p gj^ 



xllV INTRODUCTION. 

over". Though one infers that somewhat of this appreciation 
of his abilities was self-inspired, O'Neil's account of his 
travels with Prince Charles, despite its inaccuracies, is of 
importance since it adds to our knowledge a few details and 
one fact of particular interest. From his narrative it appears 
that after the engagement at Culloden, O'Neil was sent into 
Inverness by the Prince's orders to warn his adherents to escape. 
O'Neil as he galloped through the town communicated to all 
whom he saw tidings of the battle. At a window he saw Lady 
Ogilvy, Lady Mackintosh and others, " whom he did not give 
himself time to speak to, tho' they seemed desirous of it ". 
Thence he hurried on to Moy, where he expected to come up 
with the Prince. The Prince's flight, however, had been more 
precipitate, as Lord John Drummond and other officers whom 
O'Neil came up with informed him. Resting that night (April 
1 6) with one of Lord Lovat's factors, he learnt next morning 
that the Prince contemplated making a rally at Fort Augustus. 
Following him post-haste thither, O'Neil found there "nobody 
except five or six people," from whom he learnt that the Prince 
had gone on to Macdonell of Lochgarry's house. Following 
in the Prince's footsteps O'Neil at length came up with him on 
April 21, or April 19 according to his seemingly inaccurate 
statement. He found him lodging in Borradale, where he had 
been since the previous day, with one Donald Roy Macdonald, 
one of the Prince's loyal hosts whose name has until now 
escaped record. On April 26 O'Neil, piloted by Donald 
Macleod, sailed with the Prince for Stornoway. Bad weather 
compelled them to put into Rossinish, though O'Neil has no 
word of the boat's being staved to pieces on a rock, an incident 
which he recollected, or invented, at a later period.^ Upon 
resuming their journey, they were again forced to seek shelter 

^ Of- P- 73. supra, note 3. 



INTRODUCTION. xlv 

on April 30 at Scalpa. Here the Prince remained until May 
4, and passed as the son of one Sinclair, " a shipwrecked 
merchant " O'Neil explains, supplementing other accounts in 
that detail. Of their reception at Stornoway he gives an account 
similar to that in his Journal printed in The Lyon in Mourning} 
With their arrival and stay in Coradale, O'Neil reveals the name 
of another of Prince Charles's unrecorded hosts, one Ronald 
Macgachan, who with "some of the people of the Country" 
sheltered and fed him from May 15 to June 5. Ronald shared 
the fate of Prince Charles's other hosts, and his name appears 
among those whom Major-General Campbell handed over to 
Commodore Smith on August 3.'^ After further travels the 
Prince on June 21 met Flora Macdonald, and O'Neil seems to 
suggest that the incognito of " Betty Burke " was the Prince's own 
suggestion. Between his meeting with Flora Macdonald and 
his departure with her for Skye on June 28 the Prince spent an 
anxious week hiding in the heather. Of this period O'Neil 
records the extraordinary fact — not repeated by him in his 
Journal in The Lyon — that the Prince, despairing of help from 
Flora Macdonald, and hemmed in by Campbell's troops, was 
upon the point of surrendering when Neil Maceachain oppor- 
tunely arrived with the news of Flora's willingness to help the 
fugitive. That the Prince's position was in the last degree 
critical cannot be gainsaid, and that his invariably sanguine 
temperament should at last have acknowledged defeat is a 
reasonable conjecture. On the other hand, it is strange that 
O'Neil should have omitted to mention so interesting and 
dramatic an incident in his later Journal. Despite his entreaties 
O'Neil was unable to induce Flora Macdonald to allow him to 
accompany her. It is characteristic of his general inconsistency 
of statement, that whereas in his Journal he explains that Flora 

1 Cf. vol. i., pp. 365 ct- seq. ^ Supra, p. 69. 



Xlvi INTRODUCTION. 

had secured a pass "but for one servant," in his Declaration 
made at Fort Augustus on August 7, 1746, he says, "they 
[the Prince and O'Neil] could not prevail upon Miss Flora to 
take Cap*^ O'Neille along with them, as he did not speak the 
language of the country, and as he had (as she said) a Foreign 
air ". O'Neil, whose two accounts of his doings after parting from 
the Prince are not consistent,^ was shortly after made prisoner 
by Captain Macneil. He was placed on board H.M.S. Furnace, 
and on August 9 was imprisoned at Inverness. There he 
remained until November 12, when he was sent to Edinburgh 
Castle. He continued there until February, 1747, when, with 
the other French officers who had served under Prince Charles, 
he secured his release.^ 

Among the most interesting of the papers in these volumes 

are those which reveal the futility of Albemarle's en- 

of Prince deavours to apprehend Prince Charles and to obtain 

Charles m the reliable intelHpfence of his movements. That there 

Highlands. » 

were many, even among those who had associated 
themselves with the Prince's enterprise, who were ready to give 
information is sufficiently clear from Albemarle's correspondence. 
Pickle was by no means the only gentleman of that kidney in 
the Highlands, but the intelligence communicated to Albemarle 
was usually incorrect, and if correct, one suspects that it was not 
infrequently purposely conveyed too late to be of use. 

Before leaving Fort Augustus for England on July 18 
Cumberland had made a last effort to capture Prince Charles. 
On July 10 the Prince had returned to the mainland of Scotland 
from his wanderings in Skye and elsewhere among the islands. 
The news of his return was almost immediately conveyed to 
Fort Augustus, for the Mackinnons, his guides in the last stage 

1 Cf. p. 76, note 3. 2 pp, 37_ ^6, 84, 93, 381, 382. 



INTRODUCTION. xlvH 

of his journey, were made prisoners after parting with the 
Prince/ On July 13 Cumberland sent out a force of fifteen 
hundred men to search the coast. They returned to Fort 
Augustus on July 25, "vastly fatigued, almost naked," having 
completely failed to gain any intelligence of the object of 
their search.^ The Prince, meanwhile, had set out from Morar 
on July 18, and breaking through the chain of sentry-posts 
formed by the troops, had made his way to Glenshiel and thence 
to Glenmoriston. He was in fact lurking there in a cave, 
within ten miles of Fort Augustus, on the day on which the 
weary troops were returning from their search for him. Con- 
flicting rumours poured in upon Albemarle. From one quarter 
the Prince was reported to be in Badenoch, making his way 
seemingly to the eastern coast. From another it was stated 
that he had gone northwards towards Caithness. Again, he 
was still in Morar and Knoidart, and "the last Report that I 
had," writes the bewildered Earl to Newcastle on July 25, de- 
clared the Prince to have returned to the Long Island.^ In the 
next few days Albemarle eagerly endeavoured to secure reliable 
intelligence, employing " Friends (if any in these Hills) and 
Foes " for that purpose, as he wrote to Newcastle on August i. 
On that date the Prince was still in Glenmoriston, but Albe- 
marle's latest information reported him to be at Loch Broom, 
" ill attended, hiding himself in the Day time and moving about 
from Place to Place at Night".* The Prince had in fact made 
his way from Glenmoriston northward towards Poolewe in hopes 

1 p. 10, 2 p^ II. 

^ p. II. It appears (p, 50) that Captain Monro of Culcairn was sent to follow up the 
Caithness clue. He returned thence to Loch Broom on August i in consequence of Albe- 
marle's later information. Lord Ancram also sent out parties from Aberdeen to search for the 
Prince in consequence of Albemarle's instructions. They were soon recalled and had returned 
by August 6, except a detachment under Captain Sutherland which had been sent to Ruthven, 
C/. No. XLVIII., and a letter of the Lord Justice-Clerk in Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 391. 

* P. 14. 



xlviii INTRODUCTION. 

of finding a French ship there to convey him to France. He 
had, however, changed his route, and by August 14 lay concealed 
in Glengarry, south of his previous quarters in Glenmoriston/ 
Albemarle remained convinced, however, that the Prince was 
near Loch Broom, ^ and in obedience to his directions of July 28 
and 29, Commodore Smith had by August 3 sent the Serpent 
thither, with orders to the Triton, Greyhound, and other ships 
to co-operate in the endeavour to prevent the fugitive's 
escape.^ 

From Major-General John Campbell, in a letter dated 
August 4, Albemarle received fresh intelligence as to the Prince's 
movements. Campbell reported that a few days before, Prince 
Charles, Lochiel and others had been observed in a shieling in 
Glen Dessary.'' But the value of the information was con- 
siderably discounted by the fact that it located the Prince in 
Glen Dessary nearly a fortnight later than the date (July 20) on 
which he was actually there. Albemarle, however, acted at once 
upon the information, and on August 9, about three weeks after 
the Prince had left the spot, Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell and a 
party of the Argyllshire militia arrived at Glen Dessary. He 
was unable to obtain any news of the Prince's recent visit, 
though he learnt that Lochiel's brother, Dr. Archibald Cameron, 
had been in Glen Dessary three days before, no doubt on his 
way to join Prince Charles, whom he came up with at Loch 
Arkaig on August 20. Campbell found only one inhabited 
shieling in the Glen, and apprehended two of its occupants, from 

^ p. 27, note I. 

^ C/. No. XL. (Enclosure i.), for a letter dated August 4, from three inhabitants of 
Loch Broom, emphatically declaring that the Prince had not set foot within their bounds. 

^ P. 32. Monro of Culcairn, who was at Loch Broom, sent parties to Coigach and 
Assynt for the same purpose. Cf, pp. 53, 58. 

^ P. 37. In a later letter (p. 140) Campbell declared that he was " not very sanguine in 
the matter". 



INTRODUCTION. xlix 

whom, though he caused them to be flogged ** severely with 
belts," he gained no information regarding the Prince.^ 

On August 1 2 Albemarle sent another despatch to the Duke 
of Newcastle. He confessed his failure to apprehend the Prince, 
who on the date of his letter was in the Braes of Glenmoriston, 
and within ten miles of him. He reported that the Prince was 
certainly not in Badenoch, since parties from Aberdeen, Strath- 
bogie, Castle Menzies and Blair Atholl had narrowly searched 
that district. He therefore concluded that the Prince had 
escaped either in one of the French vessels which had been 
"hovering along the coast," or in a boat to the Long Island. 
His failure to obtain reliable information he attributed to the fact 
that "our detachments have always been betrayed by People 
that the Rebels had on the top of the High Hills, who by some 
signall agreed on could always convey any intelligence from one 
to another in a short space of time ". On the following day 
(August 13) Albemarle proceeded to Edinburgh, leaving the 
Earl of Loudoun to prosecute the search for the Prince by 
sending out "frequent parties," which Albemarle apprehended 
would be " the most effectuall way to come at and secure him ".^ 

Embarrassing, one may conjecture, as Prince Charles's 
capture would have been, the Government was firmly set upon 
it. On August 22 the Duke of Newcastle directed Albemarle 
to " continue to be very vigilant in preventing the Escape of the 
Pretender's Son ".^ " You need not have recommended to me," 
Albemarle replied on September i, "the preventing the Pre- 
tender's Son's escape, or the apprehending him if possible, for, 
to do the last, I should with infinite Pleasure walk bare foot from 
Pole to Pole ". As to the Prince's movements Albemarle was 
entirely without information since the abortive Glen Dessary 
expedition, and the very absence of news confirmed his belief 

1 p. 92, ? p. 97. 3 p. 137. 



1 INTRODUCTION. 

that the Prince was in the Long Island, or had " died of misery 
in some of his hidden Places ". The latter conjecture was based 
upon information furnished by Captain Felix O'Neil, who re- 
ported that at the end of June the Prince was suffering from 
" the Bloody Flux ".^ 

Prince Charles was by no means in the critical condition 
inferred by Albemarle. The breaking up of the camp at Fort 
Augustus on August 1 3 was of distinct advantage to him, and on 
August 17 the Argyllshire militia returned to Inveraray to dis- 
band. The other militia regiments which had been called out in 
Scotland were disbanded at the same time.^ The endeavour to 
follow the Prince's trail seems, therefore, to have been consider- 
ably relaxed. On September 5 he found shelter in Cluny's 
" Cage " in Benalder, and there he remained until his escape 
from Scotland on September 20.^ From time to time rumours 
of varying inaccuracy reached Edinburgh as to his whereabouts. 
Towards the end of August he was reported to be in the Long 
Island, where, it was said, he had been seen " by some parties, 
but by means of interjacent lakes and morasses, with which the 
country abounds, they were never able to come up with him ".* 
Early in September he was reported to have presented himself 
at " Lady M — g — y's " in great distress, and to have declared that 
he had not touched bread for two days, nor slept in a bed for five 
nights. Other accounts declared that in August he had sailed 
from the Moray Firth to France, and a letter from Dunkirk 
of August 22, N.S., even stated that he had landed at Blanken- 
berg.^ That the Prince had indeed escaped from Scotland in 
the latter part of August seems to have been generally and con- 
fidently held, so completely and effectually di,d Cluny's " Cage " 

^P. 208. ^ Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 393-94. 

^ Cf. The Rising of 1745, pp. 216-19. ■* Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 392, 

^ Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 444. 



INTRODUCTION. li 

hide him from even the most keen-scented informer. On Sep- 
tember 9 Albemarle wrote to the Duke of Newcastle that he had 
" heard from the North for certain that the Pretender's son sailed 
in a small French Cutter from the Western Coast in Kintaill in 
the night of the 19th" of August.^ But four days later (Sep- 
tember 13) he was obliged to apologise to Newcastle for "the 
little connexion your Grace will find in the intelligence I transmit 
to you, which is owing," he explained, " to the disaffection of 
those inhabiting North of this Place ".'^ The conflicting intelli- 
gence enclosed by Albemarle for the Duke's perusal was 
certainly bewildering. In one the Prince was described, with 
approximate accuracy, as being in Lochaber with Lochiel. In 
another the Prince's escape from Scotland in a French privateer 
was again asserted. Another most curious jumble of fact and 
fiction represented the Prince as being " hid underneath ground 
in a sort of Cave in the Isle of Mull, near the house of Jerlvick 
Maclean ". The sponsor for the correctness of this intelligence 
was "the woman's father who carried meat to him [Prince 
Charles] several times ".^ The transposition of the " romantic 
comical habitation " ^ which Cluny had prepared for the Prince, 
in which he still lay concealed on September 1 2, from the slopes 
of Benalder to distant Mull is distinctly curious. Albemarle, 
ignorant of the confused mixture of fact and fable, followed up 
the clue, and despatched a detachment to Mull to make inquiry. 
" I hope to hear they may prove successful," he wrote on Sep- 
tember 20,^ " tho' I don't flatter myself with it, for it is not to 
be supposed that the Pretender's son would continue so long in 
y^ same place." " Next to a certainty " he was persuaded that 
the Prince was not in Mull, he wrote to Newcastle on September 

1 p. 220, supra. 2 p_ 227. 

' Pp. 228, 231, 233. It was even rumoured (p. 233, note 2) that the Prince was personated 
in Scotland by a double "for a while after " he had actually escaped. 
•* The Rising of 1745, p. 216. ^ P. 235, supra. 



Hi INTRODUCTION. 

23/ Albemarle was right. Prince Charles was not even in 
Scotland. He had sailed from Lochnanuagh on September 20, 
and early in the morning of September 24 Albemarle, " called 
out of [his] bed and . . . fast asleep," penned his despatch to 
the Government to announce that the long-hunted fugitive had 
in fact escaped.^ 

Throughout the early part of September, 1746, Prince 
Charles lay concealed in Benalder, and for the greater 
Escape!"''^'^ part of the time in Cluny's " Cage ". On September 
13 important news reached him. At about one 
o'clock on the morning of that day Alexander Macpherson 
appeared at the "Cage" and announced the arrival of two 
French ships in Lochnanuagh. Without losing a moment the 
Prince started off for the coast, halted on the i6th at Achna- 
carie, Lochiel's ruined home, and on the 19th reached Loch- 
nanuagh. Within a few hours of his arrival he sailed for 
France.^ 

The papers in these volumes not only furnish a fairly com- 
plete diary of the proceedings of the French vessels from their 
appearance at Loch Boisdale on September 5 to their departure 
from Lochnanuagh on September 20, but add some details of 
interest to our knowledge of the last episode in Prince Charles's 
adventure.^ 

On September 5, 1746, two French vessels, the Prince de 
Conti and the frigate L! Heureux appeared off Loch Boisdale in 



^ p. 236. 2 p. 242. 

"Cf. The Rising of 1745, pp. 217-19. Near Achnacarie, on September 16 or 17, the 
Prince and his party fell in with a certain John Machevoul, whom they took with them to 
Lochnanuagh, releasing him so soon as they were on board. Cf. p. 292. 

'* In particular, the time of his arrival at Lochnanuagh, the precise hour of his departure, 
and the settlement of the question as to which of the two French vessels carried him to 
France. 



INTRODUCTION. Hil 

South Uist.^ They had come by the west of Ireland and had 
been fitted out at St. Malo especially to search for the Prince. 
According to the evidence^ of an Edinburgh tailor, Donald 
Macdonald, whose business took him to Lochaber, and who 
dined on board the Prince de Conti at Lochnanuagh on Septem- 
ber 12, the two vessels had been hired for the purpose by 
Prince Charles's brother, Prince Henry, from one Butler of 
St, Malo, and had been despatched to Scotland with orders 
" not to leave the Coast (unless forced away) until he [Prince 
Charles] was found and got aboard ". Both vessels carried an 
armament of over thirty guns,^ and were manned with strong 
crews of French and Swedes.^ Captain Lynch, an Irishman, 
was in command of the Prince de Co7iti. On board L' Heureux^ 
and in sole command of the expedition, was Colonel Warren, 
and with him Captain O'Brien. Captain Boullue (? Bellew) 
was in command of the vessel.'' 

The two vessels entered Loch Boisdale on September 5 
piloted by two Lewis men who had escaped from Culloden. 
Upon their arrival they landed a party of fifty men, and giving 
themselves out to be Englishmen, the detachment marched 
towards Kilbride, but retreated to the ships when they learnt 
that the Independent Companies stationed at Benbecula and 
elsewhere were assembling to attack them. They took with 
them on board four of the islanders and " made them drunk in 
hopes to get some intelligence from them about the Pretender's 
Son and some of the principall Rebel officers ". Failing in that 

' p. 237. ^ p. 270. 

^The information is conflicting as to their exact armament. Prince Charles in his 
letter to Cluny (cf. The Rising of 1745, p. 218) describes them as having 36 and 32 guns 
respectively. 

^ Macdonald gives the strength of the combined crews at about 550. A probably more 
accurate account gives them 220 and 160 respectively. Cf. p. 279, supra. 
= P. 279. 



iiv INTRODUCTION. 

endeavour they sent two of the four men on shore, and retained 
the other two to act as pilots to the mainland.^ 

On the following day, September 6, the vessels were 
observed to sail from Loch Boisdale in the direction of Skye,^ 
and about four o'clock that afternoon they anchored in Loch- 
nanuagh. There was then lying wind-bound in the Loch the 
May of Glasgow, Captain Lachlan Maclean. He concluded 
that the new arrivals were English men-of-war, but to his 
astonishment the newcomers, so soon as they came to anchor, 
sent a boarding-party to the May and declared her their prize in 
the French King's name. A crew of six men and an officer were 
left on the May, and the vessel did not regain her liberty until 
the French ships left the Loch.^ 

Warren and his companions lost no time in prosecuting 
their search for the Prince. On September 7 Captain O'Brien, 
accompanied by young Sheridan, walked over to Glenaladale 
in Moidart, but heard nothing of Charles, Alexander Mac- 
donald of Glenaladale himself proceeded to Loch Arkaig. There 
he learnt that the Prince had last been heard of in Badenoch 
— Cluny's "Cage" in Benalder. Alexander Cameron, the son 
of Clunes, hastened thither, only to hear that the Prince had left 
Badenoch and had gone southward. A week passed ; the 
fugitive was still not found. On the 12th, Donald Macdonald, 
the Edinburgh tailor, dined on board the Prince de Conti. 
Their failure to trace the Prince had considerably depressed the 
spirits of his would-be rescuers, and Macdonald remarked that 
they were "all in great pain for fear of being disappointed in 
finding him ". There was a good deal of speculation as to the 
Prince's object in proceeding southward, and Macdonald "par- 
ticularly heard the Gentleman with whom he dined " declare 

^ p. 237. ^ p. 269. 

' p. 279. It is stated in one account (p. 240) that the French threw up entrenchments 
at the mouth of the Loch. 



INTRODUCTION. Iv 

that the Prince would first endeavour to get help from Barclay 
of Ury, near Stonehaven, and that should he fail there, he 
would probably make his way direct either to the house of 
Norwell Hume, near Edinburgh, or to Lady Bruce in Leith 
citadel, or to Priestfield, Lady Cunningham's house near Edin- 
burgh/ Such conjectures were very wide of the mark, for but 
a few hours after the dinner on board the Prince de Conti ended, 
Prince Charles had received news of the ships' arrival and was 
on his way from Benalder to join them. 

Another week of anxiety passed before the Prince's arrival. 
Meanwhile many of his followers found their way to the ships. 
On September 1 1 Young Clanranald and Glenaladale, " with 5 of 
their Inferiour Gentlemen and Ten private men or Servants," 
boarded L' Heuretix. On the following day Clanranald and 
some of his followers were transferred to the Prince de Conti. 
Bishop Macdonald was also on the vessel. On the 13th 
Barrisdale and his son went on board L' Hetireux, and, like 
Clanranald, were transferred to the other ship. Barrisdale left 
next morning and returned to his house " in order to settle 
his affairs " preparatory to leaving the country, and when he 
returned, so Donald Macdonald gathered, he was to be made 
a prisoner.^ 

Disappointed in their quest of the Prince on the mainland, 
the French ships extended the radius of their search. On the 
15th they and their prize, the May, got under sail. " but the Wind 
soon coming contrary they came to Anchor".^ On the i6th 
there was still no news of the Prince, and the ships were again 
sent " to take a trip to sea and to return there [Lochnanuagh] 
and thereabouts and try all methods to get Intelligence ".* They 

^ p. 272. Lord Albemarle patiently followed up these clues. Cf. p. 269. 

'^ Pp. 268, 272, 279. An account of Barrisdale is given elsewhere in this Introduction, 

^ P. 279. ^ P. 273. 



Ivi INTRODUCTION. 

cruised between Skye and Eigg and returned to their old 
anchorage in the evening/ Two more days passed. But on 
the 19th, "about six in the Evening," as Colonel Warren and 
Captain Bellew were finishing their supper on board L' Heureux, 
the sudden and joyful news reached them that the Prince himself 
was on the Prince de Conti, The two officers "got up in great 
hurry, got on their best clothes," and proceeded to the other 
vessel to pay their respects. The captain and all save one of 
the crew of the May were hastily sent back to their ship that 
nothing might hinder an immediate start. At two o'clock, in the 
morning of the 20th Warren came on board the May to arrange 
for her ransom. He was "in Top spirits and seemed greatly 
elevated with his extraordinary success," and told the captain 
"plainly he had now got the Prince on board". A little later, 
"'twixt two and three in the morning 20th Curr^ the wind being 
very fresh at North," the French ships set sail.^ They returned to 
France along the route by which they had come to Scotland, and 
successfully avoiding Admiral Lestocq's squadron on the coast of 
Brittany, arrived at Roscoff, near Morlaix, on September 29.^ 
" Nothing," wrote Albemarle to Newcastle, " is to me a more 
convincing proof of the disaffection of that great part of the 
Country than that of his [Prince Charles's] lying so long con- 
cealed amongst those people, and that he should be able to elude 
our narrowest and most exact searches, and at last make his 
escape notwithstanding the great reward offered to apprehend 
him."^ 

Mr. Blaikie, in a critical note,^ has described the uncertainty 
as to which of the two French ships was the one which bore 

1 Pp. 279, 264. 2 p, 280. 

^ Scots Magazine, vol. xi., p. 639. The Prince's route on his return to France is shown 
upon a map facsimiled in The Rising of 1745, p. 22. A rumour obtained some currency, that 
the Prince had been captured before reaching France. Cf. p. 294. 

^ P. 289. ^Cf. his Itinerary, p. 102. 



INTRODUCTION. Ivii 

Prince Charles from Scotland. That question can, however, be 
solved. In the small hours of September 20 the Prince wrote 
a short letter to Cluny Macpherson : "Thanks to God I am 
arrived safe abord y^ vessell, which is a verry Clever one, and 
has another alonst with her as good, y^ first is of 36 Guns and 
ye second 32 ".^ It is so far clear that the Prince was then on 
board the larger of the two vessels. There are in these volumes 
three statements as to the relative equipment of the two ships, 
and all concur in assigning the heavier armament to the frigate 
VHeureux. In a letter of intelligence to Lord Albemarle, dated 
September 22, the Prince de Conti is described as carrying 
twenty-two, and her consort twenty-six carriage guns.^ The 
Edinburgh tailor, Donald Macdonald, who was on board the 
ships, makes a similar statement.^ Lachlan Maclean, the captain 
of the May, who had equal opportunity for judging, gives the 
Prince de Conti twenty-four 9-pounders and twenty swivel-guns, 
and to L' Heureux thirty-four 12-pounders and twenty-four 
swivel-guns.* On the other side must be placed Lord Albe- 
marle's statement in a letter to Newcastle on October 27 ^ : " the 
Pretender's Son went on board the Conti of Twenty two guns 
in company with a larger ship of Thirty guns on the 19* of 
the last month and sailed the morning following ". Albemarle's 
authority was Lachlan Maclean's letter to Macleod of Talisker,*^ 
which Albemarle had forwarded to Newcastle on October 8. 
Maclean's statement makes it clear that the Prince went first on 
board the Prince de Conti, and that Colonel Warren at once put 
off from V Heureux to receive him. There can be little doubt 
that he brought the Prince back with him to L! Heureux, and 
that Charles sailed in her. She was the larger vessel, and had on 
board the commander of the expedition ; while the transference 



1 Rising of 1745, P- ?i9- ^ P- 267, supra. ^ P. 271, 

* p. 279. 5 P. 295. 8 p 280, 

k 



Iviii INTRODUCTION. 

from her to the Prince de Conti of Young Clanranald and other 
fugitives, a fact already noticed, suggests that the frigate had 
been prepared and was reserved for him on whose behalf 
especially the expedition had been planned.^ 

With the Prince safe on board U Heureux, Warren was 
resolved to run no further risks by delaying his departure. In 
consequence, several of the Prince's followers who hoped to find 
safety on board the French vessels were disappointed.^ John 
Machevoul, who perforce accompanied Prince Charles to Loch- 
nanuagh, mentions " Cameron of Torcastle, Stuart of Ardsheal, 
Clunie M'^Pherson and others who were expected to get there ".^ 
Writing to Newcastle on October 15, Albemarle correctly added 
Young Clanranald to the list of those left behind.^ 

The flight of Prince Charles from Scotland in September, 
1746, was far from extinguishing the hopes which 
the^High- ° had been centred in him. If one may establish a 
landers, 1746- modern parallel, the situation was not dissimilar from 
that created by the flight of the Boer executive from 
the Transvaal after the occupation of Pretoria in 1900. Prince 
Charles, like ex-President Kriiger and his entourage later, had 
withdrawn confessedly to secure European intervention. In 
both cases the belief was general that such intervention would 
be secured, and so long as the hope existed, those who had 
fought for Prince Charles confidently awaited the opportunity to 

^ Some weeks after the Prince's departure two French ships made their appearance at 
Eigg, and learning that the Prince had left Scotland, offered to "carry any Rebell officer to 
France for Five Pounds ". Cf. p. 299. 

^ The lists of those who accompanied the Prince to France printed in this volume are 
by no means reliable. 

3 P. 293. 

* P. 289. He adds the names of Gordon of Glenbucket and Lord Lewis Gordon. Both 
of them, however, were with the Prince when he paid a State visit to the French Court shortly 
after his arrival from Scotland. Cf. The Rising of 1745, p. 221. 



tNTRODUCTiON. \ix 

again take the field. Dependence upon French aid had always 
been the settled though fragile policy of the Scottish Jacobites 
since James the Seventh sought the protection of Louis the 
Fourteenth. The continuance of war between England and 
France was a fundamental necessity if that policy was to be produc- 
tive. Hence until the definitive peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 
the Highlanders were buoyed up with sanguine expectations of 
French succours, and were ready to take advantage of them. 
True, constant disappointment tended to damp their ardour as 
the year 1747 ran its course, but the success of the French at 
Laufeldt and Bergen op Zoom again revived them. Again they 
flickered, and were finally extinguished when the Peace of 1748 
closed the door for ever upon European intervention. 

Prince Charles's last message to the clans declared his belief 
that a brighter day would dawn which should see his return to 
them. " My lads," it ran (if one may credit the informer), " be 
in good spirits, it shall not be long before I am with you, and 
shall endeavour to make up for all the loss you have suffered. I 
have left money for your subsistence that are officers, and have 
also left money to provide meal for all the private men." ^ Cluny 
Macpherson, besides the ungrateful task of distributing the Loch 
Arkaig hoard, was expressly enjoined " to keep up the spirit of 
the Highlanders as much as possible by intimating to every 
particular the encouragements . . . expected and promised by 
France, and to let them know that the Pretender's only view in 
going was to hasten these succours ". Cluny's asseverations 
.were the more likely to carry weight since he "staid behind 
when he had an opportunity of going off". '^ 

The reports of spies and others in these volumes sufficiently 
prove that the hopes raised by the Prince's message remained 
very vivid in the minds of his followers. Little more than 

^ p. 303. 2 p 291. 



Ix INTRODUCTION. 

a month after Prince Charies's departure Albemarle received 
information from Lochaber, that "ev'ry one of the common 
rebels are made believe there will be a grand invasion very 
soon, and that it is to be at many places at the same time ; that 
Lochiel is to conduct those intended for this country, and that 
the Pretender himself at going off promised this "/ From 
Appin a few days later (October 29) came the intelligence that 
the people there were "in very high spirits, in expectation of 
great things from France ".^ Patrick Campbell, who was em- 
ployed by Cumberland and Albemarle to procure information, 
made an extended tour through the Highlands in the latter part 
of October, 1746. He reported the Macleans as being " full of 
the expectation of a landing from France, and found by them 
that they would be ready to rebel whenever they had the oppor- 
tunity ". The Macdonalds and Camerons were " all of the same 
mind with the clan of Mac Lean ". The Camerons, in particular, 
were "still in the hills with full arms," and were supported by 
Cluny's treasure.^ In Arisaig and Knoidart Campbell observed 
" the same disposition of rebellion " and " great plenty of arms " 
among the inhabitants, who " had great assurances of a landing 
from France in the spring ". Even the officers of the disbanded 
Independent Companies in Skye were in a discontented frame 
of mind. The Grants of Glenmoriston also were "full of the 
spirit of rebellion," and in the Braes of Atholl alone Campbell 
found an exception to the generally prevalent spirit of disaffection.** 
On December 20, 1 746, Albemarle forwarded to the Duke 
of Newcastle another disquieting report.^ His informant declared 
that "he never knew the Lochaber Rebels in greater hopes ". 
Those of Moidart and Arisaig were equally restless. All of 
them were fully convinced that foreign assistance would reach 
them before March, 1747, and "the greatest part of them" 

^P. 299. ^ p. 300. ^P. 303. ^Pp. 334 et seq. ^P. 345. 



iNTRODUCtlON. Ixi 

were " more ready now to join in any desperate attempt than 
ever". They still had arms in plenty, and French gold was 
circulating alluringly among them. Even those who had sur- 
rendered were now appearing " openly in arms, except when 
they apprehend some of the King's Forces are near them ".^ 
The winter of 1746-47 pressed heavily upon the devastated 
Highlands. "The Inhabitants of the Rebellious Countries 
begin to be in misery for want of Provisions," wrote a corre- 
spondent to Albemarle on February 2, 1747. "Those dis- 
tressed creatures, howevef," he added, "are fed with vain hopes 
of sudden succours from France, which will be the Constant 
Cant while we are yet at war with that Nation."^ That the 
encouragement offered from France was honest may be shrewdly 
questioned. If it heartened the Highlanders, it aided France 
still more by preventing a serious reduction of the military 
establishment in Scotland, which otherwise would be freed for 
service on the Continent.^ As the opening of the campaign of 
1747 approached, the rumours of French invasion became more 
definite. A letter of February 5, 1747, to the Sheriff-Depute 
of Argyllshire informed him of the arrival in Scotland of a 
bastard son of Cameron of Torcastle, who had " brought the 
Pretender's adherents agreeable intelligence, That he is at Sea 
or very soon to be ". Meetings of the disaffected chiefs had 
been held in Appin, and the prospect seemed so encouraging 
that Ardshiel, who before the courier's arrival had been " ex- 
tremely anxious of embracing the first opportunity of going over 
seas," had abandoned his intention.* Albemarle forwarded his 
information to Newcastle on February 9, and two days later 
(February 11) followed it with a report from one who had 
travelled through the north-eastern Highlands. In Badenoch 
he found that all, " save a very few who never surrendered," 

1 p. 346. - p. 365. ^ Cf. Enclosure ii., p. 365. •• P. 367. 



ixii INTRODUCTION. 

were living peaceably at home, but all of them were " fond of 
Rebellion and Expecting a Landing of the French upon the 
West Coast ". They had arms in plenty, those they had 
surrendered being " only some rusty useless " ones. The Fraser 
country was quiet, but Jacobite agents were busy there, and 
*' every one spiriting up another to a Rebellion in the Spring ". 
The Mackenzies, '* who openly spoke their minds," confessed 
that their arms were in readiness and themselves willing " to 
join the expected Landing of the French in the Spring". In 
S trathbogie and Aberdeenshire the same disposition was observed. ^ 
With this information Albemarle forwarded another letter of 
intelligence to Newcastle. "The general opinion" in the High- 
lands, the writer reported, "is that an invasion is intended this 
spring about Patrickmass ; grounded upon a promise made or 
message sent the outstanding Rebels to that purpose." About 
one hundred of the Camerons were reported to be under arms 
near Loch Arkaig. In Appin there was " an unusual stir 
among the people," which, " with Ardsheill's change of measures, 
and their frequent meetings," suggested the conclusion that they 
were "hatching some mischief or other". It was even "whis- 
pered" that the French were "already, or soon will be, at sea".^ 
On February 14 Albemarle forwarded the statement of a " Noted 
Rebel," who declared that about the middle of January, 1747, a 
French ship had landed arms in Eigg, and that Dr. Archibald 
Cameron, who had come over in the vessel, had had an inter- 
view with Cluny and Angus Cameron in Rannoch, as a result of 
which a further distribution of the Loch Arkaig hoard was to be 
made, with the assurance that the recipients " were to enter on 
full Pay by the first of March, and that there would be use for 
them soon after ".^ 

Albemarle's budget of information was sufficiently disquiet- 

' Pp. 370, 371. ^ Pp. 371 et seq. ^ P. 376. 



INTRODUCTION. Ixiii 

ing. March, 1747, however, came in and went out with no 
appearance of the French invasion so generally anticipated. 
The spirits of the Highlanders, lately so buoyant, became 
correspondingly depressed, and Fletcher was able to report to 
Newcastle on April 25, 1747: "By letters from the West 
Highlands all is quiet there, and a good many of the cpmmon 
people, even the Camerons, have voluntarily taken the oath 
to the Government calculated .to their taste, and say they 
think themselves bound, and are determined to act accord- 
mgly / 

Throughout the summer and early autumn of 1 747 the same 
hopeful outlook continued. But with October the spirits of the 
Jacobites revived, encouraged to a great extent by the recent 
successes of the French at Bergen op Zoom. "The agents of 
that Diabolickal party," Fletcher wrote to Newcastle on October 
4, "have turned more noisy and insolent." They openly alleged 
an alliance between France and Prussia in favour of Prince 
Charles, and believed his marriage with a Prussian Princess to 
be imminent. The Prince, it was asserted, had " for his Quotta 
agreed to furnish one Million in money and Ten thousand men 
with Transports and convoys &c.". " I do not think," Fletcher 
added, " that the Times ever had so bad an appearance in my 
remembrance." ^ The usual rumours were poured into the ears 
of the Government by its representative in Scotland. Lochiel 
was reported to have returned to Scotland, a story told to 
Fletcher's informant " by way of a great secret by a Jacobite 
who visits at Gask and other Gentlemen's houses in that neigh- 
bourhood ". Lochiel, it was said, " had gone up into the High- 
lands and had dispersed part of that [Loch Arkaig] money and 
was preparing matters for the reception of a body of French 
Troops who are expected into the Country ". A Jacobite, who 

1 p. 449. 2 p_ ^6o_ 



Ixiv INTRODUCTION. 

had " been in three Rebellions and now is pardoned," was said 
to be pleasurably anticipating " sweet revenge on this and the 
other person who had acted as he thought a harsh part to folks 
in his way ". The man was a member of the Strathearn Club.^ 
" Whatever be the Cause," Campbell of Airds wrote to Fletcher 
on October 25, 1747, "it is certain the Disaffected to the North- 
ward never were in greater Spirits or stronger expectations than 
at present. They impute to the late Storms that there was 
not a landing before now." ^ From a correspondent at Fort 
William on the following day Fletcher was informed of " Couriers 
going and coming 'twixt the Disaffected in this Kingdom and 
those abroad ". Bishop Macdonald was expected, and the Jaco- 
bites generally were described as being " very much Elevated 
and in topp Spirits since the taking of Bergen-op-Zoom '\^ On 
January 28, 1748, Fletcher forwarded to Newcastle another 
batch of intelligence. The Highlanders were as confident as 
ever of France's intention to support " a second attempt and a 
better laid scheme" than that of 1745. "Something new is 
upon the An vile," wrote Campbell of Airds, closely watching the 
Camerons ; "an Invasion is not only looked upon as certain but 
at hand. A landing in England and Scotland is talked of at the 
same time, and all those who do not join [are] to be destroyed 
with fire and sword." " I heard several of them say," he con- 
tinued, " that had they begun the last Rebellion in that way it 
had gone better with them." * Such rumours were not more 
fruitful of consequence than their forerunners, and the days of 
active Jacobite effort closed for ever when in April, 1748, France 
and England signed the Preliminaries of the definitive Peace of 
Aix-la-Chapelle. 

1 P. 465, 2 p. 469. 3 p. 470. ^ P. 525. 



INTRODUCTION. Ixv 

If the Highlanders were encouraged by hopes of French 
assistance, the French treasure stored at Loch 
Arkaig served a practical purpose in supporting treasure 
them during a period of irksome inactivity. The 
treasure was brought to Borradale early in May, 1746, by 
two French vessels which successfully resisted the efforts 
of H.M.S. Greyhound, Baltimore, and Terror to capture 
them. It was landed in seven large casks, one of which was 
immediately stolen, it would appear, by the worthy Barrisdale.^ 
According to Captain Lynch the money had been collected by 
an Irish priest named Butler *' among the Popish Churches 
abroad".^ It amounted at first to about ^40,000, and Prince 
Charles seems to have wished to take what remained of it 
in September with him to France. The proposal was debated 
at "a long Council of War," and the clansmen and their Chiefs, 
as might be expected, disliked the proposal.^ The gold 
therefore remained in its hiding-place at Loch Arkaig. When 
the Prince left Scotland it amounted to about ^20,000.^ A 
brief note to Cluny giving directions as to the immediate dis- 
tribution of a portion of it was written by the Prince from 
on board L Heureux on September 20, 1746, within an hour 
or so of his departure.'' As to the bulk of the money Cluny's 
instructions were to make as little drain upon it as possible, at 
least until he was assured that there was no hope of Prince 
Charles's return. Cluny's task was by no means an easy or a 
pleasant one, and the niggardliness with which he distributed 
.the money produced considerable ill-feeling between those who 
received and those who were denied it.*^ 

The earliest definite information as to the landing and 
hiding-place of the treasure was given by the Edinburgh tailor, 



1 Pp. 64, 228, 272. 2 p_ 273. 8 p. 338. 4 p. 337. 

^ The letter is facsimilied in my Rising of 1745. Cf. p. 338, supra. ® P. 372, 



Ixvi INTRODUCTION. 

Donald Macdonald, who on September 28, 1746, made a 
declaration at Edinburgh that Young Clanranald had told him 
the money was hidden at the foot of Loch Arkaig under 
the charge of Dr. Archibald Cameron.^ Cameron, however, had 
accompanied the Prince to France eight days before, and Cluny 
took over the invidious duty. 

On October 10 one of the first distributions of the treasure 
was made, when " every private man who did not deliver up his 
Arms in Appin and neighbouring countries received five pounds 
sterling reward, and them that were in the station of Officers in 
proportion ". Stewart of Ardshiel and Cameron of Torcastle, 
Lochiel's uncle, were the agents whom Cluny employed.- A 
month later Patrick Campbell upon his tour of espionage found 
"plenty of French gold upon all his travells with the people, 
and most with the Camerons ".^ Cluny's instructions were 
actually known to Albemarle in a letter sent to him on November 
4, and by him forwarded to Newcastle on November 15. His 
informant — Patrick Campbell one assumes — was even able to 
state the amounts apportioned to the participating clans, with 
the further information that the balance of the ^20,000 was "to 
be distributed among the greatest sufferers, at or before the first 
of February [1747], in case no relief comes to them before that 
time ".^ Beyond the sums specified by the Prince at his departure, 
Cluny, true to his instructions, had apparently made no further 
distribution when Albemarle wrote to Newcastle on December 
6. The clans, according to Albemarle, seemed "somewhat 
dissatisfied at the sparingness " with which the money was being 
distributed. Albemarle, on his part, was resolved, if possible, 
to stop any further doles. Cluny had eluded capture, but 
Albemarle was in greater hopes of securing Cameron of Tor- 
castle, Cluny's " principal agent in the distribution of this Cash ".'' 

1 p. 273. 2 p. 300, 5 p. 304. ^p, 312, "P. 326. 



INTRODUCTION. Ixvii 

Patrick Campbell's detailed report informed Albemarle of others 
concerned in the distribution of the treasure. The Camerons of 
Clunes, Glenpean and Fassefern were therein described as 
Cluny's co-trustees, Mrs. Macdougall, the wife of an Edinburgh 
wine merchant, and sister of Murray of Broughton, was also 
mentioned as having received a considerable portion of the 
money — nearly ^4,000 — which Murray had left with Mrs. 
Menzies of Culdairs. From Haliburton, a French officer, Mrs. 
Macdougall was said to also have received ^1,300, part of 
which had been given by her to the Macgregors "for sub- 
sistence".^ On December 23 she was arrested.^ 

Albemarle's failure to secure Cluny and others engaged in 
the management of the Loch Arkaig hoard was to some extent 
compensated for by the jealousies which its distribution caused 
among the clans. " They often quarrel among themselves 
about the division, even the length of Daggers drawing," wrote 
an informer on December 7, 1746.^ In the following February 
Albemarle learnt that the '' McDonalds of Clanronald's Family 
received no part of the money left with Clunie McPherson, 
which occasions some Grudge and ill will betwixt them and 
the Clan Cameron, who, it seems, the McDonalds blame for 
their being so much neglected".* About the middle of January, 
1747, however, encouraging rumours of a projected French 
expedition reached Scotland, and a further dole of a guinea was 
ordered "to each private man engaged in the Rebellion".^ 
Again in October, 1747, in obedience to instructions brought 
• over from France, all who had been excepted from the Act of 
Indemnity received money from Cluny, and Cameron of Tor- 
castle and Stewart of Ardshiel received ^100 each.'' In 
December, 1747, the storekeeper at Fort William observed "a 

1 Pp. 337-38. ^P. 349- ^'P. 346. 

* P. 372. Cf. p. 527. 5 P. 376. B P. 469. 



Ixviii INTRODUCTION. 

fresh Circulation of Lewidors among the Highlanders".^ But 
the bulk of the treasure remained the source of endless bickerings 
among those for whose support it had been intended. 

The alarming nature of the rising of 1745 and the disaffection 
of the Highland tract throughout 1746 and 1747 
SettSent^ demanded drastic settlement. Various schemes to 
that end are among the papers in these volumes. 
The first of them is an anonymous Memorial ^ which Albemarle 
forwarded to the Duke of Newcastle on November 15, 1746, as 
" worthy of your serious perusal ". The author of it declared 
the Highlanders to be a people " who are naturally ingenious 
and tractable to such as they think have good designs towards 
them," and " could easily be made usefull members of society, 
and faithfull subjects to his Majesty King George ". That their 
natural disposition was unable to display itself he attributed to 
specific causes : the tyranny of the Chiefs, " who behaved as 
absolute sovereigns " ; the multiplicity of the cadet branches of 
the great families, who aped the policy and supported the author- 
ity of their superior ; the insecurity of the tenants in their leases, 
who, besides, were " oppress'd with such a burden of services 
that they are little better than a kind of slaves " ; the inculcation 
among the Highlanders of the "doctrines of hereditary inde- 
feasible right " by " Popish priests, Nonjurant ministers, and 
schoolmasters " ; the rarity of schools, institutions which the 
Chiefs disliked and discountenanced as likely " to undermine 
their authority, and rescue the people from their yoke " ; the 
unwieldy size of the Highland parishes, "by which it happens 
that in many there are 5 ordinary places of Worship at a 
great distance from one another, under the inspection of one 
minister," so that " many thousands in the far Highlands do not 

ip. 506. ^P. 305. 



Introduction. Ixi 



XIX 



hear sermon above four times a year, tho' they have no other 
means but the labours of their ministers to direct them in their 
duty to God or man " ; the inadequate stipends of the ministers 
and the discouraging nature of their work, in consequence of 
which " many parishes have been planted with weak men, 
whereas the sagacious and cunning Highlanders would require 
men of parts, learning and discretion to deal with them " ; the 
prevalence of organised larceny in certain territories, notably in 
Rannoch and among the Macdonalds and Camerons. 

Such being the causes of the lawlessness of the Highlands, 
the author of the Memorial turned to his proposals for their 
reform. For the protection of the tenants he advocated the 
grant to them of leases "at least for 19 years, or rather for 
two lives," and the abolition of the personal services hitherto due 
to and exacted by the Chiefs. As to the Chiefs, he urged that 
every one who had not shown a good disposition towards the 
Government during the late rising should be deported and 
compelled to reside at least forty miles from his clan. To 
control the territories thus deprived of their Chief he proposed 
the appointment of " a baillie or chamberlain" in "every com- 
petent district ". The new officials were to be well affected to 
the existing constitution in Church and State, able to speak 
Gaelic, and not to be of the clan among whom they were 
appointed to reside. The Bailie, who was also to be a Justice 
of the Peace, was to form a committee consisting of himself, 
" the minister, and two discreet men of the parish," who were 
"to make regulations for the good of the country " in all matters 
relating to the cultivation of the soil. The Bailie himself was 
to collect the tenants' rents, and " once or twice ev'ry year " he 
was to furnish to the proper authorities a list of " thieves, 
vagabonds, or idle persons " within his bounds. As representing 
dangerous and reactionary traditions the Roman Catholic priests 



ixx INTRODUCTION. 

were recommended to be summarily and generally expelled from 
" Britain and the Isles thereto belonging". 

The Highlands, purged of their disturbing elements, were 
to be submitted to influences which in time would work for their 
regeneration. The parishes were to be reduced to a workable 
size, so that every parishioner might have " access to hear sermon 
ev'ry Lord's day, and no place would breed up wild men, 
strangers to religion and society ". The village schoolmaster 
was to be encouraged by a stipend of not less than " £io ster., 
two acres of land and two cows grass, with a convenient house 
and garden ". Schools were to be erected, and within a year of 
their completion every minister was to have " one discourse ev'ry 
Sabbaoth in English ". Schools and sermon together would 
help to bring it about that " the Highland tongue would wear out 
in an age or two, and these people would not be barbarians to 
the rest of Britain ". As to the minister, he was to be supported 
by an income of ;^6o, added to " ^5 ster, of the lands next 
adjacent to his house, rent free, besides the ordinary glebe 
allowed by law ". In the larger parishes the stipend was recom- 
mended to be increased to ^80. 

For the erection of the proposed schools there was available 
the ^1,000 granted annually by the King for the support of 
the Church in the Highlands. This sum was inadequate, the 
memorialist pointed out, and it would be necessary " that a 
voluntary subscription should be opened all Britain over, for all 
well disposed persons to contribute towards civilizing that de- 
luded and miserable people ". To superintend the allocation of 
the fund thus raised the appointment of a committee or com- 
mittees was recommended, to come into existence before June i, 
1747, to consist of ministers and merchants nominated by the 
Lord Justice-Clerk, and to make their report to him. Pending 
the organisation of the scheme, its author recommended the 



INTRODUCTION. Ixxi 

appointment of three ministers, to be settled at or near Inveraray, 
Inverness, and Dunkeld, and possibly a fourth at Aberdeen or 
Strathbogie. Their duty, it was suggested, would be to transmit 
monthly or more frequent reports to the Lord Justice-Clerk as 
to the disposition of the inhabitants of their districts, the move- 
ments of Jacobite emissaries, and "what they can learn worth 
while from the several corners ". There is no further reference 
to this scheme in the papers printed in these volumes. One may 
conjecture that its author was Campbell of Stonefield, the Sheriff- 
Depute of Argyllshire, from whom Albemarle received occasional 
suggestions as to the measures best adapted for the pacification 
and settlement of the Highlands. 

The winter of 1746 produced a plentiful crop of rumours as 
to the activity of the Jacobites and the anxiety of the High- 
landers to avenge Culloden. In the spring of 1747 Fletcher 
deemed it advisable to point out to the Government the necessity 
for putting into action a severe and definite policy. Writing to 
Newcastle on April 17, 1747, he urged the devising of effectual 
measures whereby to establish the peace of the Highlands " upon 
a solid and lasting foundation ". The banishment or punishment 
of " those we ought to get rid of," the disarming of the rest, and 
the encouragement of agriculture, manufactures and fisheries 
outlined his scheme. The Highlands would benefit, their "bar- 
barity " be extirpated. Their Chiefs' authority, their language 
and distinctive dress would be removed, and idleness, " the 
present source of their poverty, Theift and Rebellion," would be 
-prevented. In time that " barbarous part of the Island, hitherto 
a noxious load upon the whole," would become " our support and 
strength, by the produce of our Fisherys and Manufactures, and 
the great supply of men for our Fleet and Armys, to which the 
Genius of the Highlanders naturally lead them ".^ 

^P.447. 



Ixxii INTRODUCTION. 

The disasters to the arms of England and her ally in the 
campaign of 1747, and notably the defeat at Laufeldt and the 
loss of Bergen op Zoom, acted as a tonic upon the drooping 
spirits of the Jacobites. On October 20, 1747, Fletcher wrote 
again to Newcastle to urge a strenuous policy. New com- 
missions of the Peace were necessary, from which the Jacobites 
and their adherents should be rigidly excluded. In the county 
of Inverness and throughout the disaffected districts, where 
suitable Justices could not be found, he advised the appointment 
of officers of the Army. The list of Sheriffs- Depute also would 
require careful scrutiny.^ Fletcher had already instructed the 
Sheriffs in the necessity for exercising their utmost diligence, 
and in particular for putting into instant operation the Act of 
1746 for suppressing Nonjuring Meeting-houses.^ On De- 
cember 4, 1 747, Fletcher forwarded for the consideration of the 
Government an exhaustive Memorial upon the Highlands, 
drawn up by himself and Lieutenant-General Humphrey Bland, 
the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief, with suggestions for 
their settlement. The scheme was boldly conceived, and in- 
volved no less than the purchase by the Crown of the territories 
of the disaffected clans. *' The Foundation upon which the 
success of our Scheme depends," wrote Fletcher in a covering 
letter, " is the great Power that naturally and necessarily attends 
Property." When the Crown had become " Proprietor of so 
large a Tract of Lands possessed by Loyall subjects, there can 
be little Danger that the others can ever give any Disturbance to 
the Government," he explained.^ 

In their Memorial * Fletcher and Bland minutely detailed 
their proposal. The rental of the lands to be acquired by the 

1 p. 462. 

2 p. 463. The prosecution of Nonjurors is dealt with in another part of the Intro- 
duction, p. Ixxiv., infra, 

^ P. 479. * Pp. 480 et seq. 



mTRODUCTION. Ixxiii 

Crown they estimated at from ^2,000 to ^3,000 per annum, 
and " believ'd that most of the Proprietors would not be un- 
willing to sell them at a reasonable price ". Their acquisition, 
joined to the Lovat and other forfeited estates, would ''give the 
King the property of a Tract of Lands from the west to the 
East sea ". For the proper development of the lands thus to be 
acquired, the authors of the scheme advised that emigrants 
should be attracted to them from England and '* the Low 
and well affected Country of Scotland ", One method they 
proposed as " pretty obvious," namely, the wholesale deportation 
of the out-pensioners of Chelsea Hospital to the new Crown 
territory. In addition to retaining their existing pension, it was 
suggested that leases should be assigned to them, at an easy 
rate, of as much land as they were able to stock. Similar terms 
would be offered to any lowlanders who might be willing to take 
up land. The leases, however, were to be subject to conditions 
which would ensure the existence of a loyal population within 
the hitherto turbulent districts. None but Protestants would be 
eligible. Attendance at the English school would be com- 
pulsory upon all the children of the district until they obtained a 
certificate of their ability to read and speak English. To the 
same end the reconstruction of the unwieldy parishes, the 
erection of schools, and the encouragement in particular of the 
linen manufacture, were advocated. Such measures could not 
bear fruit at once, and in the meantime it would be necessary to 
maintain an adequate military force at four or five stations in 
the Highlands, which could also undertake such public works as 
the making of roads. By such measures, the authors of the 
scheme ventured to prophesy, the late rebellion, "that was 
intended to overturn the present happy Establishment, will by 
its consequences procure great Strength to that excellent 
Constitution it was designed to subvert", 



Ixxiv INTRODUCTION, 

The scheme suggested by Fletcher and Bland appears to 
have been remitted to the Cabinet for consideration, and though 
it was far from being adopted in its entirety, it indicated at least 
some of the lines along which the reformation of the Highlands 
did in fact move. 

The autumn of 1747, as has been observed, presented to 
the Government's representative in Scotland a more 
Nonjurors, critical period than any since the early and astound- 
ing successes of Prince Charles's Highland host. 
Energetic measures were called for, and were applied with 
particular vigour towards the nonjuring Episcopal clergy and 
their congregations. 

The law relating to Episcopal Meeting-houses in Scotland ^ 
had been defined in the Act of Toleration of the tenth year of 
Anne's reign. By that Act the holding of Episcopal worship 
in Scotland and the use of the English Liturgy had been sanc- 
tioned, with the proviso that the officiating minister should have 
received his orders at the hands of "a Protestant Bishop," 
should have recorded his letters of orders in the Quarter Sessions 
of the locality in which his place of worship was situated, and 
should on or before August i next ensuing have taken the usual 
oaths. That he should pray for the Queen and Royal family 
was also enjoined. 

The law so stated remained in force until the Act of 1746. 
In the interval the Hanoverian dynasty had replaced the last of 
the Stuart rulers, and as the preamble of the new Statute declared, 
a number of Episcopal congregations had been established, whose 
ministers " have never taken the Oaths to His Majesty or his 
Royal Father, or ever did in express words during the exercise 
of Divine Worship pray for His Majesty and the Royal Family, 

I Cf. pp. 531 et seq. 



INTRODUCTION. IxxV 

By means whereof these illegal Meetings have greatly contributed 
to excite and foment a spirit of disaffection amongst numbers 
of persons in that part of the Kingdom against His Majesty's 
person and Government, which hath been one of the causes of 
the Wicked and unnatural Rebellion lately raised and carried 
on against His Majesty in favour of a Popish Pretender". The 
Act therefore directed that on or before November i, 1746, the 
Sheriffs and Magistrates should cause lists to be made of all 
Episcopal Meeting-houses within their bounds, and that on or 
before September i, 1746, every minister of an Episcopal con- 
gregation in Scotland should produce to the proper authority 
a certificate of his having taken the oath of allegiance to the 
reigning sovereign. After November i, 1746, the authorities 
were empowered to close all Meeting-houses whose ministers 
had not complied with the Act. As to Episcopal ministers who 
entered upon their office and its duties after September i, 1746, 
the Act made an alteration in their qualifications as defined in 
the Act of Toleration of Queen Anne. Such ministers were 
required to produce and to register their letters of orders as 
before, but their orders would not be deemed valid unless they 
had been given by a " Bishop of the Church of England or of 
Ireland". In other words, ordination at the hands of a Scottish 
Bishop was not accepted as a legal qualification for the exercise 
of an Episcopal charge in Scotland. 

The new Act received the Royal assent upon August 
12, 1746.^ Upon October 17, 1747, the Lord Justice-Clerk 
directed the Sheriffs to put it in operation and to transmit to 
him " constant accounts " of their proceedings.^ The first con- 
viction under the Act took place at Perth against the Rev. 
George Semple, the minister of an Episcopal congregation in 
that town. It is clear that there was upon the part of the 

^P. 533- 2 p. 464. 



Ixxvi tNTRODUCTlON. 

authorities a disposition to treat known offenders with as much 
latitude as possible. The Sheriff of Perth had required a signifi- 
cant reminder of his duty before moving in the matter/ and 
though Semple was convicted,^ the magistrates were loath to 
proceed further against the members of his congregation.'^ On 
January 4, 1748, Fletcher ordered the Sheriff of Aberdeenshire to 
proceed against the ministers of two Meeting-houses in that 
county.^ These persons, though they had taken the required 
oaths, had failed to record their letters of orders before opening 
their Meeting-houses.'' Their failure in the latter requirement 
appears to have been due to the fact, that between the passing of 
the Act on August 12, 1746, and the following September i, 
there had been no meeting of Quarter Sessions in the county, 
nor was there until March, 1747.^ Fortified by the opinion of 
" Council learned in the Law " they had continued to conduct 
public worship until the Sheriff, in obedience to Fletcher's 
directions, began to make preparations for their prosecution. 
Thereupon they agreed to close their Meeting-houses, and 
Fletcher would appear to have been in favour of the abandonment 
of further proceedings against them.' In Kincardineshire three 
convictions were obtained against the Rev. Alexander Greig of 
Stonehaven, the Rev. John Petrie of Drumlithie, and the Rev. 
John Troup of Muchalls.^ The Sheriff, however, conducted the 
matter in such an evidently half-hearted manner as to call upon 
him the censure of his superior.^ 

Some few facts come to light in the papers in these volumes 
regarding the movements of some of the more prom- 
inent of the Prince's supporters. Of particular interest 
is an information laid against John Macdonell of Glengarry. He 

^ Cf, Fletcher's letter to him of December ii, 1747, infra, p. 497. 

2 The account of his trial is on pp. 507 et seq. Cf. p. 523. ^ Cf. pp. 515, 516, 

4 P. 517. 6 p. 529. «P. 533. c/. p. 518. 'P. 530- 

« P. 548. * Cf pp. 520-23. 



INTRODUCTION. Ixxvil 

himself had refrained from joining the Prince. His younger son 
Angus had led the clan until his death at Falkirk, and his heir, 
the notorious " Pickle," had been confined to the Tower for his 
intrigues with the Jacobites abroad.^ The conduct of his sons 
threw suspicion upon their father, but it was a despicable act of 
treachery which caused his arrest and imprisonment. On July 
16, 1746, the unprincipled Barrisdale and six other Macdonells 
subscribed and forwarded to Albemarle an indictment of their 
Chief- Its purport was that they had joined the Prince under 
pressure from their superior. Incidentally they accused him of 
having received money from the Prince to raise his clan, though 
he himself, "contrary to his faith and promise," had absented, 
leaving the ingenuous Barrisdale and the rest to raise their 
followers at their own expense. They asserted that though 
Glengarry had never taken the field, he had executed the 
" Severest Cruelties " upon those of his clan who ventured to 
return to their homes when desertion began to deplete the 
Jacobite army ; that he had remitted his tenants' rents — draw- 
ing their equivalent from the Prince's coffers — and by such 
measures kept his regiment " the fullest and the best in the 
field over what they travelled in England and Scotland ". They 
asserted that to the action at Culloden " there was neither young 
or old, such as formerly [were] left at home as not fit for long 
marches, but he forced out," and that after his clan surrendered, 
he requested from Murray of Broughton a sum of money to 
enable him to still keep a body of men on foot. Though 
Fletcher regarded the information as " another fetch " on Bar- 
risdale's part " to save his Sweet Bacon," ^ Glengarry was appre- 
hended on August 4, 1746.* He was committed prisoner to 
Edinburgh Castle on the following August 23, and did not 
recover his liberty until October, 1749.^ 

1 p. 86, note. '-^ P. 405. s p g^^ 

^ P. 407. 5 p_ 86_ note. C/. p. 288. 



IxxvHl INTRODUCTION. 

Regarding Lochiel, Albemarle in a sentence describes the 
high appreciation which he inspired even among his 
foes. In spite of many rumours of the Prince's 
escape, Albemarle was finally convinced that he had indeed 
gone when he learnt that he had taken Lochiel with him ; " for 
I never doubted of his affection," he told Newcastle,^ " the best, 
nay the only good man, zealous for his Interest in this Country, 
therefore [I] could not believe he would leave him to shift for 
himself". After Lochiel was safely on his way to France, one 
of Albemarle's anonymous informants gave him an account of 
an interview with Lochiel and Cluny some time in August, 
1746. " I advised Lochiel to surrender himself to you," wrote 
Albemarle's correspondent,^ " but the other [Cluny] opposed it." 
Soon after, Lochiel was summoned to the spot where the Prince 
was lurking, but being lame, Lochgarry and Dr. Cameron 
went in his stead. On August 27 they found him in the 
Braes of Achnacarie. Three days later (August 30) they 
brought him to Lochiel in Benalder. The Prince seemed still 
desirous of calling together his followers " in order to procure 
their peace or die sword in hand ". Both Lochiel and Cluny 
scouted the idea as " a Don Quixote Scheme," and did not hesi- 
tate to tell the Prince, " tho' they should be willing, that it was 
impossible to raise one man ". Rumours of Lochiel's return to 
Scotland in 1747 were fairly persistent. He had not been a 
month in France when his approaching return at the head of a 
French force was spread abroad.^ Again, in October, 1747, 
he was said to have landed at Peterhead and to have gone to the 
Highlands to prepare for the expected but phantom French 
levies.* The story was contradicted,'' but it was again revived, 
and in November he was declared to have lately arrived in 
Lochnanuagh in a forty-gun French ship.*^ 

1 p. 263. 2 p_ 282. 3 p_ 299. 4 p_ 465. 5 Cf. pp. 470, 474. 6 p, 478, 



INTRODUCTION. Ixxix 

To the Government, Dr. Archibald Cameron was even more 
a stormy petrel than his brother, the " gentle Lochiel". 
He, too, had accompanied Prince Charles from Scot- cameron. 
land. But if the intelligence transmitted to the 
Government may be credited, he acted as the chief agent be- 
tween the Prince in France and the Highland Jacobites so 
long as the hope of French intervention remained. Early in 
December, 1746, he was expected from France with "good 
tidings".^ In February, 1747, there was "some talk" that he 
had arrived,^ and had had an interview with Cluny Macpherson 
and Angus Cameron, whom he had assured of the imminence of 
a French invasion.'^ On the following April 10 Fletcher had 
" certain intelligence " that Cameron had landed and was on 
his way to meet Cluny in Badenoch.* In October, 1747, he 
was again reported to have had an interview with Cluny and 
others entrusted with the distribution of the Loch Arkaiof 
treasure,^ and though from other quarters doubt was thrown 
upon the truth of the rumour, it revived again in November, 
with the added circumstance that Cameron had landed in 
Lochnanuagh in order " to prepare the Highlanders for a second 
Insurrection ".*' A final note of his movements reached the 
authorities in January, 1748, when he was declared to have 
returned to France " in Harvest last "/ 

Barrisdale's treatment of Glengarry has already been men- 
tioned. The man was " a Ropfue," and so Albe- ^ . , , 

... Barrisdale. 

marie described him.^ He had made his submission 
to Cumberland in June, 1746,'' and had secured a protection from 
the Duke — an understanding that he was to make himself useful 
may be assumed. The protection was, however, withdrawn by 

IP. 326. 2pp. 368, 373. =P. 376. "P. 443- C/. p. 448. 

5 P. 469. »P. 478. 'P. 526. »P. 263. « P. 125, note 4. 



Ixxx INTRODUCTION. 

Cumberland "upon the shortcomeing of his [Barrisdale's] proposed 
merite "/ The circumstance probably inspired his attempt to 
shelter himself behind Glengarry. (His information was written 
on July 1 6, just two days before Cumberland left Fort Augustus 
on his return to England.) The man's audacity was boundless. 
Within a few days of his indictment of Glengarry he was, it 
seems, actually in the Prince's company.^ Shortly after, he 
was endeavouring to make his peace with Albemarle at Fort 
Augustus. He was also corresponding with Lord Loudoun, who 
before August 18, 1746, had received two letters from him "of 
no great import ".^ Albemarle, however, before he left Fort 
Augustus on August 13, had given orders to Loudoun to send 
parties into Barrisdale's country in Knoidart and to effect his 
capture,^ and by August 18 the order had been put into execution.^ 
Captain George Monro of Culcairn, whose murder at Loch 
Arkaig is elsewhere related,^' was sent on that service." Barris- 
dale was also being hunted from another quarter. On August 
23 H.M.S. Furnace arrived at Bernera and communicated 
Major-General Campbell's orders that Barrisdale should be 
secured. The same evening an officer and thirty-six men were 
despatched to Knoidart. Upon their arrival at Barrisdale's 
house they were gravely informed that he was not at home, and 
had " gone to Fort Augustus by Lord Louden's order " ! ^ 
Barrisdale, in fact, had " made his escape with his son in a 
Boat," and had gone " Southward along the Coast ".^ The 
attempt to capture him must have convinced him that his credit 
with the Government was entirely exhausted.^** His flight south- 

1 p. 87. 2 p. 38. 3 p. 125, note 4. ^ p. 213. 

SP. 126. 6 p. 216. ''P. 214. 

* P. 190. Captain Fergusson, of H.M.S. Fxirnace, denied that he had received or con- 
veyed orders from Campbell to apprehend Barrisdale, whose protection from Albemarle had 
not then expired. Cf. his letter, p. 219. 

'•' P. 233. 1" The narrative above seems to confirm my conclusion in note 2, p. 272. 



INTRODUCTION. Ixxxi 

ward along the coast must have given him early intelligence 
of the opportune arrival of the French ships L' Heureux and 
Prince de Conti. The vessels entered Lochnanuagh on Sep- 
tember 6, and a week later (September 13) Barrisdale and his 
son went on board L! Hetireux, and " after some Hours Stay " 
were transferred to the Prince de Conti} Next day Barrisdale 
left the ship and returned to his house, "about Twelve Miles 
from the place where the Ships lay, in order to Settle his affairs ". 
His perfidy, if not fully known, was shrewdly suspected. The 
theft of one of the casks containing the French treasure was 
attributed to him. It was already believed, though Young 
Clanranald could not credit it, that " he had undertaken to 
betray and deliver up " the Prince. His incarceration, should 
he return, was already spoken of among his associates on board 
the ships." Ignorant of the fate awaiting him, Barrisdale re- 
turned to Lochnanuagh. On September 20 he sailed with 
Prince Charles for France. One reads with satisfaction that 
this Judas of the party and his son " were put in irons in close 
confinement by the Young Pretender's order as soon as they 
went on board ".^ 

Cluny's doings in connection with the Loch Arkaig hoard, 
so far as they are illustrated in these volumes, have 
already been described. His death at Clifton skir- ^}t^J.u^. ^„ 

-' Macpnerson. 

mish appears to have been reported in the Highlands,* 
and with equal inaccuracy his escape with Prince Charles in 
September, 1746, was asserted.^ After the Prince's departure, 
Cluny, as an informer gathered, " relying upon the Strength and 
attachment of his Clan, who are all united to him, ventures to 

1 p. 279. 2 p_ 272. 

' p. 305. In November, 1747, there was a rumour that Barrisdale had returned to 
Scotland. C/. p. 478. 

4 P. 261, 5 pp, 241, 266, 268, 280. 

/ 



Ixxxii INTRODUCTION. 

sculk among them, and Donald McPherson of Breakachy keeps 
close along with him. They stay at the side of Locherich, but 
venture to go into Badenoch, and are often at Breakachy's 
house." ^ His capture was particularly desired by the Govern- 
ment.^ In February, 1747, Albemarle had secured "a Noted 
Rebel " to whom he had given a protection, who held out hopes 
" of being the means of securing Clunie McPherson," and set out 
from Edinburgh on February 15 with that object.^ In April he 
reported that he had " some accounts of Clunie " and was "just 
going off upon further information towards North ".* Cluny, 
however, continued at large. 

The obtaining evidence against Lovat appears to have given 
the authorities in Scotland considerable trouble. On 

Lord Lovat. 

October 7, 1746, the Duke of Newcastle directed 
Fletcher to procure evidence, an order which Fletcher had 
already forestalled, expressing the hope ''that we shall be able to 
collect more than enough to do his [Lovat's] business ".^ The 
task was entrusted to Lord Loudoun and Rose of Kilravock, who 
found it difficult to induce witnesses to come in, and as difficult 
to get anything out of those who volunteered evidence.*^ At 
length, in February, 1747, Fletcher was able to give directions 
for the pertinent witnesses to be sent up to London.'' They, or 
many of them, went with considerable dislike to the journey, but 
on February 23 all except four of those required set out from 
Edinburgh. " I prevailed with such as could post to proceed 
with the utmost despatch," writes Fletcher to Newcastle, " but 
none of them are very good horsemen ; but however, six of them 
have undertaken it, and the other six, mostly weak, old and 

1 p. 291. 2 p. 468, 

' p. 374. The " noted rebel " appears to have made himself otherwise useful. C/. 
p. 433. He was the "J. D." whose examination is printed on p. 376. 

4 p, 4^6, 5 p, 287. 6 C/. Loudoun's letter, p. 355. '' P. 430. 



INTRODUCTION. 1 



XXXlll 



infirm, with the help of post chaises, are to make what haste they 
can." ^ There appears to have been at first some idea of putting 
Lovat upon his trial before a Grand Jury of Inverness. Both 
Fletcher and the Lord Advocate adduced strong reasons for 
doubting whether the Government would secure a verdict in that 
county, and the proposal was abandoned.^ 

Lovat's son, the Master, surrendered at Fort Augustus on 
August 13, 1746.^ On August lo he had addressed 
a letter to Loudoun from Calgary.* It has the true of^Lo^a?^'^ 
Lovat ring : he was weighted with a "just Sense" 
of his " folly," and if " the Error of my youth is pardond, it shall 
be the worke of my old age to attone for it ". He had intended to 
surrender to Cumberland, but the Duke's "sudden departure" 
prevented him. He was encouraged by Lord Albemarle's 
" Character and Generosity " to surrender to him, " especially as 
Lord Loudoun is next in the Command ". To Loudoun, after 
his surrender, he talked "as if he was very sensible of the Crime 
he had committed," and managed to convey the creditable 
impression that but for a fear lest he should be called upon to 
give evidence against his father, he would have surrendered 
earlier.^ Writing a few days later (August 18), Loudoun was 
able to report that Fraser showed " great remorse and repent- 
ance for his past behavior," and that his anxiety to reach Fort 
Augustus before Albemarle left had alone prevented him from 
bringing with him " several people who Acted as Officers among 
the Rebells ". Pending Albemarle's instructions Fraser was 
confined at Fort Augustus.^ On November 12, 1746, he was 
removed/ On November 22 he arrived at Leith,^ and was 

^ p. 434. C/. pp. 432, 433. 2 Cf. their letter, p. 421. 

■''P. no. In a later letter Loudoun gives the 14th as the date of Eraser's surrender. 
Cf. p. 125. 

■* P. 8g. 5 P. no. «P. 125. ' P. 90, note 2. " P. 316. 



Ixxxiv INtRObUCTION. 

confined in Edinburgh Castle. Writing to the Duke of New- 
castle on December 20, 1746, Albemarle suggested the advis- 
ability of transferring Fraser to London.^ He remained at 
Edinburgh, however, until the summer of 1747. On August 7, 
1747, Newcastle directed that owing to his ill-health he should 
be transferred to Glasgow on parole.^ On August 12, 1747, 
Fraser executed an undertaking " not to stir out of the limits " 
of that town " without his Majesty's Express permission for that 
purpose," and three days later (August 15) he proceeded to 
Glasgow.^ 

Of events in Aberdeen during the progress of the rebellion 
,, J some interestingf details are furnished in two letters* 

Aberdeen ^ 

and the of John Thomson, an officer of the Customs at 
Aberdeen, and a vigorous anti- Jacobite. Thomson 
was in Caithness when the news of Prince Charles's arrival in 
Scotland (August, 1745) reached him. On his return to Aber- 
deen he made it his business " to visit as many of the Gentlemen 
and Clergy " as he could in the counties through which he passed, 
and stimulated them to exert themselves on behalf of the Govern- 
ment. He reached Aberdeen a few days before Sir John Cope 
arrived there on September 1 1. The Prince's success in pushing 
past Cope southward towards Perth had filled Aberdeen with 
dismay. Even those well affected to the Government were of 
opinion that upon Cope's departure — he sailed for the Forth 
on September 1 5 — it would be futile even to endeavour to defend 
the town against attack, since it was " open and without Walls," 
and many of its inhabitants were Jacobites. Thomson therefore 
induced Major Caulfield and Captain George Monro of Culcairn 
to represent the position of affairs to Cope, who insisted upon 
the delivery to him of the town's military equipment, which con- 

1 p. 345. 2 p ^52. »P. 454. '^ Supra, pp. 144-49, 159-61. 



iNTRODUCTiON. IxxXV 

sisted of twelve cannon and three hundred stands of arms. A 
week after Cope's departure the news of his defeat at Preston- 
pans reached Aberdeen. The Prince's supporters at Aberdeen 
were thereby encouraged to openly declare themselves. They 
"began to appear in Arms every where, and opened and 
examined the Letters to and from Edinburgh ; so that the well 
affected had no intelligence by the Posts, especially to the north 
of Aberdeen, but what came through the Rebels Hands ". To 
the supporters of the Government the outlook continued gloomy 
until the end of September, when a ship from Newcastle put in 
at Aberdeen and brought intelligence of the arrival of troops from 
Flanders to stem the further progress of the rebellion, good news 
which Thomson at once forwarded to Sir Harry Innes at Elgin 
and to Duncan Forbes at Inverness. Thomson's activity was 
known. His correspondence with the Government's agents in 
the North was suspected, and he was threatened with death by 
his Jacobite fellow- townsmen should their suspicions be con- 
firmed ; but, says the worthy man, " that did not hinder me 
from carrying on my Correspondence as formerly ". Thomson's 
pertinacity soon involved him in serious danger. Early in 
October, 1745, a ship arrived at Montrose with arms and 
ammunition for the Prince's army. It was followed by another 
which landed its cargo at Stonehaven. Of the first Thomson 
sent information to H.M.S. Fox, and of the second to the 
Hazard, sloop, and H.M.S. Glasgow. In consequence he 
narrowly escaped capture. Captain David Ferrier, the Jacobite 
Governor of Brechin, with the master of the Stonehaven vessel, 
came over to Aberdeen, raided Thomson's lodgings, and would 
have caught him had he not got out "at a back Door whilst 
they were at the outer-Gate ". Shortly after, Lord Lewis 
Gordon arrived at Aberdeen with a commission from Prince 
Charles to act as Lord Lieutenant of the County. Thomson at 



IxXXVl INTRODUCTION. 

once promoted a loyal " Association," and induced a round score 
of sympathisers to join him. The fraternity approached the 
Earl of Loudoun with a request to send to Aberdeen six or 
seven hundred of the Independent Companies to second the 
efforts of the three hundred loyalists whom the " Association " 
was confident of raising. Loudoun, however, was unable to 
accede to Thomson's request, " the Independent Companys not 
being then completed ". Thomson at length found it advisable 
to withdraw from Aberdeen. He left the town on November 3, 
1745, having been "certainly Informed that there was a parti- 
cular Order come from the Young Pretender" for his arrest. 
He narrowly escaped capture on his journey towards Inverness, 
for David Tulloch, " a Rebel officer," and others came up with 
him at Elgin, captured his horses and baggage, and followed him 
to Forres. 

From distant Inverness Thomson continued to keep a 
watchful eye upon Aberdeen. The spirits of the disaffected 
there and elsewhere in the North were vastly raised by the 
landing of Lord John Drummond's contingent on the eastern 
coast on November 22, 1745. They numbered no more than 
about eight hundred, but exaggerated and discouraging reports 
of their strength were spread from Aberdeen. Thomson 
satisfactorily discounted them by sending his servant thither 
to make enquiries. He also accompanied the Laird of Macleod 
on the expedition which led to the skirmish at Inverurie on 
December 23. Thomson, who lost his belongings in the action, 
infers that had his advice been followed, the result might have 
been less satisfactory to the Jacobites — reticence is not numbered 
among the good man's virtues. He became thenceforward, he 
declares, a man marked for vengeance should ill-fortune have 
delivered him to those whom he had so often circumvented. 
After further adventures Thomson was enabled to return to 



INTRODUCTION. Ixxxvii 

Aberdeen in March, 1746. He was attached to Cumberland's 
army as intelligence-officer until after the Battle of Culloden on 
April 16. When Lord Ancram proceeded to Aberdeen soon 
after, Thomson attended him there, and used his opportunity to 
wipe off old scores against some of his opponents in the town.^ 

Other matters upon which the papers in these volumes shed 
light must be merely referred to." The preparation 
of evidence for the trial of the Jacobite prisoners at 
Carlisle is described in considerable detail in the letters of the 
Lord Justice-Clerk. An account of the murder of Captain 
George Monro of Culcairn is given by eye-witnesses. There 
appears to have been a good deal of difficulty in identifying his 
murderer. The strenuous Jacobitism of Lady Lude, and the 
methods by which she forced out the Robertsons, are amusingly 
detailed in the evidence against her. Some details of Prince 
Charles's stay at Blair Atholl, Lude and Dunkeld are given 
therein. There is also a letter of Sir Alexander Macdonald of 
Sleat to Old Clanranald giving the information which had 
reached him regarding Prince Charles's bold advance into 
England in the autumn of 1745. The tone of it certainly 
justifies the suspicion with which he was regarded by the 
Government. 

^ It was he who laid information against the Aberdeen merchants Nicol and Walker, 
on which Lord Ancram summarily acted. Cf. p. log, supra. 

2 The Index is a sufficient guide to the subjects indicated in this paragraph. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 
I. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Perth February ye ly^ [1746]. 
My Lord, 

No pen can discribe our situation last night when His 
Royal Highness return'd from Edenburgh and brought us the unwel- 
come news he received there from London, as also the satisfaction wee 
all felt this morning at the arrival of the Messenger ; amongst the crowd 
I may venture to say nobody had more real pleasure then myself. Joy 
my Dear Lord Duke to you in particular, to the King my Master and 
to all his servants and your friends, that you have by accepting again of 
your office^ restored him to his power and authority in his Kingdoms 
and over his people, which I own I thought very precarious yesterday. 
May your Grace always prosper and be rewarded for your honest heart 
and upwright ways of thinking is the most ardent of my wishes, who 
remain more then ever with the greatest respect, 

My Dear Duke 
Your most faithful! and Devoted servant 



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I beg my respects and congratulations to her Grace, M""- Pelham 
and Duke of Grafton. 

Endorsed : — R[eceived] 25th (by Chandler). 

^ Addit. MSS. 32706, fol. 159. 

^ In February, 1746, the Pelhams returned to office after an attempt on the part of 
Qranville and Bath to form a ministry. 

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2 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

II. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Aberdeen March y^ 5th 1745/6. 
My Lord, 

I had yesterday ye pleasure of a Letter from M""- Hone with 
your Graces reasons for not writing yourself ; any excuse I think need- 
less, for considering y^ distance between us, and my common neglect 
and idleness in writing, a Line from any body by your directions is 
more then I deserve. 

H.R.H. told me this morning that he believed that L^- George 
Sackville was to have one of y^ vacant commissions, S''- Robert Mon- 
roes, or Ligonier's Regiments, and that supposing itt to be so, he had 
by this express recommend'd Bury^ to succeed h^- George as Aide 
Camp to the King, and further he ordered me to acquaint your Grace 
with his intentions, not doubting but in consequence of his wishes, and 
for ye sake of a Father whos fortune you have already made, you will 
now grant your protection to y^ son. 

Wee are still here, and y^ Rebels on y^ banks of y^ river Spey, and 
at or towards Inverness ; this water (they give out) they intend to dispute 
with us.^ I could wish they would, for as I make no doubt of beating 
of them, a brush would put an end to this cursed and unatural rebellion, 
and without such a thing this affair may be tidious and Lasting, for 
these villains will Lead us a dance from one bad country to a worse, 
and throw y^ worse people I ever knew ; for I protest I prefer y^ soil to 
ye Inhabitants, for more malice, falsehood, cunning, and self interest 
was never mett with in any country whatesoever ; for these reasons, and 
for having no earthly convinientcy, I own myself most sincerely tyred 
of this expidition, and pray to God it may soon be put an end to, 
effectually I mean, for I had rather stay here (bad as I am) a twelve 
month Longer, then leave it in ye power of these rascals of ever 
attempting again to give trouble to their Lawfull King, or quiet neigh- 

1 Addit. MSS. 32706, fol. 257. 

^ George Viscount Bury, afterwards (1755) third Earl of Albemarle. 
^ The van of the Duke of Cumberland's army had reached Aberdeen on February 25, 
1746. — Scots Magazine, vol, viii., p. 92. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 3 

hours. I beg pardon for having taken up so much of your Graces time, 
and desire Leave to acknowledge myself in y^ strongest manner, 

My Dear Lord Duke 
Your most obedient humble servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
My respects to her Grace. 

Endorsed : — R. 14. 

in. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Richmond?^ 

Nairn April ye 15th. 
My Dear Duke, 

My Letter must be short, for my time is very precious, 
besides my usual Idleness. I shall therefore give you but a short 
narration of ourselves. I joined y^ army Last friday at Cullen from 
Strathbogie, where I command'd y^ advanced post 19 Days 30 milles 
from Aberdeen, consequently Lying y^ whole time in hott water, hardly 
ever pulling off my coat and breetches. Saturday wee ford'd y^ Spey, 
and encamped on this side, meeting with little or no opposition ; sun- 
day we marched to Alves, half way between Elgin and Forres ; yesterday 
we ford'd y^ Findhorn and Nairn (ys first very deep) ; near y^ last wee 
took our camp ; ^ wee mett with no difficultys at any of these Rivers. 
The Rebels might with ease and no danger to themselves have disputed 
ye passage of every one ; ^ at this town (whether insolence in them or 
whether they did not expect us so soon I cant tell) wee heard they 
proposed waiting for us ; ye Duke immidiately sent ye Cavalry for- 
wards, who not only drove them out of itt but four milles beyond, 

^Addit. MSS. 32707, fol. 100. 

2 Cumberland left Aberdeen on April 8 and concentrated his forces at Cullen on Friday, 
April II. He crossed the Spey on the 12th ; was at Elgin on the 13th ; at Nairn on the 14th ; 
halted on the 15th, and defeated the Prince at Culloden on the i6th. Cf. Scots Magazine, 
vol. viii., p. 184. 

'The Duke of Perth and Lord John Drummond evacuated the posts they held as 
the Duke advanced, and joined the Prince at Inverness on April 14. — Spalding Club Miscellany, 
vol. i., p. 343. 



4 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

where having taken a few prisonners, they were forced to stop for want 
of the foot coming up in time to sustain them. This body of theirs, 
consisting of about 4000, retired to Inverness to join (as they say) a 
great body of their Clans, and then to meet and fight us on our march 
thether, but I don't beHeve itt ; from Inverness I am ordered back to 
Perth, to join ye Hessiens,^ a commission I don't like ; when I left 
London I thought I should be a soldier in Scotland, and not a privy 
councellor to Prince Frederick. I mentioned nothing of y^ contents of 
your Letter to y^ Duke ; for several Days before he told me, that by 
M"^- Pelham's interest, unknown to him, and contrary to his inclination. 
Coll. Pit's company is engaged to the Duke of Kingston for Capt. Arminger. 
Now that I have answered your letter I must beg of you, my Dear 
Duke, to do a Job for Bury (if not desagreable to you). The case is 
this, Lord George Sackville has Monroe's Regiment, consequently an 
Aid de Camp commission to the King [is] vacant. The Duke has writ 
for Bury, and I have writ to y^ Duke of Newcastle for his interest, but 
his Grace is engaged to Coll. Dury, but is so good to promise me not to 
push itt far. Quiry — would you care to speak to the King in your own 
name and myne. Upon y^ success of this depends the future happy- 
ness of that valuable Boy ; — Huske ^ is well, and begs his respects to 
you. I desire myne to her Grace, and you'll believe me 
My Dear Duke 

V- ever affectionate 

brother and most humble servant 

ALB. 

IV. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Fort Augustus June y^ 14th 1746. 
My Lord, 

Lord Bury (who by your Grace's assistance is made y^ hap- 
pyest creature existing, and who now shares with me in y^ many and 

1 A force of 4000 or 5000 Hessian troops landed at Leith on February 8, under the 
command of Prince Frederick of Hesse. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 89. 
^ Major-General John Huske. 
^Addit. MSS. 32707, fol. 316. 




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THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 5 

great obligations due by our family to you, which nothing but Death can 
ever make me forget) has writ me word of y^ Kings intention to Leave 
me in this cursed country, and your goodness in postponing sending 
me ye proper Commission to command till you knew my inclinations on 
thathead.^ Helas, my Lord, it is too Late for me to chuse. H.R.H.hasfix 
it in such a manner that I must submit to my ill fate ; ever since I have 
had common reason I have Learned to obey, y^ more so since being a 
Soldier is my profession, but never with more reluctance then now. I know 
y^ people, I know y^ country, and that my predecessors have split against 
a sharpe rock, much more so at present then before, having nothing to save 
me from malice, envy, and Lyes but your Grace's assistance and that of 
the rest of my friends ; all this I have told, more then once, to H.R.H., 
who has given me many proofs of his usual goodness on this occasion, 
and has been pleased to promise me his protection, but I fear he may 
be sent abroad when I shall stand y^ most in need of itt ; this being the 
case, I do promise your Grace that I'll endeavour to do all in my power 
to serve my King and Master and please y^ people as far as I shall find 
it consisting with my Duty to him and his interest, which can not 
always be y^ case. I beg pardon for dwelling so long on this subject, 
but must desire Leave to add one thing more, that my Pay being 
y^ same then as it now is, and being obliged to Live whilst at Eden- 
burgh in a manner very different from what I have proposed to myself 
for some time passed, unless I have douceurs from y^ King at first 
setting out, I shall be undone. Honywood had a present ; since him, 
Lord Dunmore. — I am with my respects to Her Grace and M^- Pelham, 
with great Duty 

Your Grace's most obedient humble servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
Endorsed : — R. 25. 

^ General Hawley had been appointed to the command in Scotland at the beginning of 
the year. Upon his resignation (cf. Lord Albemarle's letter of June 17, infra, No. V.) Lord 
Albemarle was appointed his successor. The Duke of Cumberland vacated the command of 
the army in Scotland on July 18. 



6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

V. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Richmond P^ 

Fort Augustus Camp June y^ 17th 1746. 
My Dear Duke, 

As I know by Long expirience Your Graces friendship to me 
and myne (of which I have had a most convincing proof Lately by your 
goodness to Bury in being instrumental in ye making of that Dear Boys 
fortune, a favour that neither he or I can ever be enough thankfull or ever 
forget) Makes me trouble you with my present situation and beg your 
assistance. Some Days since H.R.H. sent for me to tell me that y^ King 
had given Leave to General Hawley to give up his command in this country, 
and at y^ same time had appointed me his successor ; this my Chief ac- 
companied with many civil and flattering expressions to me. I excused 
myself of that honour and gave my reasons why, but to no purpose. Le 
Roy le veut & tel est son bon plaisir ; therefore I find my Doom is 
decreed and that I am upon y^ brink of ruin. La volonte de Dieu soit 
faite. I was in hopes after four years absence from home, and 16 
months campain, y^ more so that I came to this Kingdom a volonteer 
on purpose to attend the Duke, I might have had y^ satisfaction of 
going home ; but in short it can't be, and I find I must again be seperated 
from my family and friends, split upon y^ rocks that has in different 
ways undone four of my predecessors, and be left to y^ mercy of these 
people, who never want Lyes or malice to ruin a man that wishes well 
to ye King and his interest, and it is absolutely impossible for y^ person 
That commands here to do his Duty Like an honest man and be well 
with ye people and their present Minister at Court, who wee hear 
begings already to skreen some of these Rebellious rascals ; Therefore 
my Dear Lord I must hope for your succour and that of my friends, 
that I may not be condemned hereafter without being fully heard. 

Another thing I must beg of you which I have mentioned to ye Duke 
of Newcastle, to trye and gett me something to sett me up in this 
country, or else my pocket is undone. General Honywood had a 
present when he first went to Flanders, and Lord Dunmore since ; my 
pay as commander in Chief is no better then that of L^ General which 

1 Addit. MSS. 32707, fol. 326. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 7 

I now injoy, and my travelling about this country to visite the Troops, 
Forts and Garrisons, and my Living when at Edenburgh in a proper 
and suitable manner to my rank, must be attend'd with greater expence ; 
besides my case is different from any ; I came away from Flanders at 
4 hours warning, not able to take my Horses and equipage over at that 
time. Left most at Antwerp; when I came to Newcastle I bought 
several things, then I was ordered at my expence to London, where 
being appointed to follow y^ Duke to Lancashire I furnished myself 
with those necessarys I wanted ; from Stone, as your Grace knows, I 
returned to London, and ten Days after came away to this country 
with six shirts only, Leaving that part of my equipage behind, which 
has since been joined by y^ rest, but as my situation was uncertain, 
never could send for itt, therefore have been obliged to borrow, hire and 
buy every thing in a strange manner in this country. Therefore pray 
agree with me that my case is uncommon, and forgive [me] for having 
trespassed so long on your patience. I am very unhappy, but most 
sincerely 

Your Grace's 

Most obedient humble serv'- 

ALB. 
Make what use you please of this Letter, and then burn it. 

VL 

The Duke of Newcastle to the Lord Justice-Clerk.^ 

Whitehall July ii^h 1746. 
My Lord, 

Having acquainted Your Lordship by my letter of the 12**1 
of May last with His Majesty's pleasure that you should procure from 
the Shirriffs or other proper Officers in the Several Countys of Scotland 
Exact lists of the names of the persons that were in Custody on account 
of the Rebellion, with an account of the prooffs and Evidence that 
could be brought against them, And that Your Lordship should trans- 
mitt to me the said Lists, I am now Commanded to send His Majesty's 
directions to Your Lordship, that all such persons as are confined in any 

^ Fcilden MSS. 



^ THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

of the prisons of Scotland on account of their having been taken in 
Arms, or of having personally Joined those that were in Arms against 
His Majesty, should be forthwith sent under a sufficient guard to Car- 
lisle in order to take their Tryal,^ for which Your LoP- will accordingly 
give the necessary orders. And I am to acquaint Your Lordship with 
His Majesty's pleasure that you should at the same time transmitt to 
M'- Philip Carteret Webb at Carlisle, the Sollicitor appointed on His 
Majesty's behalf for that purpose, such Evidence as shall have been 
procured by H, R. Highness The Duke or Your Lordship against the 
Prisoners that shall be sent to Carlisle, Taking particular care that the 
witnesses that shall be sent to give Evidence against the said prisoners 
be able to prove that they have seen the prisoners do some hostile Act 
on the part of the Rebels, or marching with the Rebel Army. 
I am with great Truth and Respect 
My Lord 
Your Lordship's Most obedient humble Servant 
Signd 




Lord Justice Clerk 

VH. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Fort Augustus, July y^ 13th 1746. 
My Lord, 

I received ye honour of Your Graces Letter Last Thursday 
ye jQih instant by Howe the messenger, and with a due sense of grati- 

^ The Court appointed to try the prisoners opened at Carlisle on August 12, 1746. Th* 
number of prisoners amounted to three hundred and eighty-five. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. 
viii., pp. 437 et seq. 

^S.P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 33. No. 44. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 9 

tude, acknowledge my thanks for your usual goodness so fully expressed 
in it, and for your good advice, which I immediately followed by freely 
opening my mind to the Duke, to whom I owned I did it in consequence 
of your opinion. But H.R.H. still persisted to be of the same mind 
that I should stay here. I had no reply to make, and y^ power to obey 
his commands was all I had left, tho' any other service (even y^ West 
Indies) had been more agreeable to me, but especially Flanders where 
I might have acted nearer to his person.^ But having now no other 
choice but a total resignation to his will, I must endeavour to Discharge 
my Duty and trust with zeal, activity, and diligence for the interest of 
my Royal Master, which I promise Your Grace to do to y^ utmost of my 
knowledge. This I fear (as I have mentioned before) will be attended 
with great difficultys in pleasing y^ people of this country, therefore I am 
more in want of your protection then ever, which for God sake don't 
take from me. I shall want it also in another instance, which I have 
explained by this Days post to M^- Pelham, and not doubting of his 
speaking to your Grace upon it, I shant trouble you on that particular, 
only hint that whilst Marshal Wade command'd in this country, his 
appointments were considerable, and that he had besides (which he 
now injoys) a salary of ^^1200 as governour of these three Forts ^ repaired 
in his time to curb y^ insolence of the Highlanders, which in my opinion 
should always for y^ future be given to the Commander in Chief for 
Scotland for y^ time being ; in this particular I chiefly speak for others, 
for with ye utmost sincerity and from y^ bottom of my soul, I hope M"^- 
Wade will out live my Command here. En un mot, My Lord, L'Ecosse 
est ma bete. Before I end my long epistle, writ with a heart full of 
sorrow, allow me again to thank you for your repeated favour to Bury ; 
that he and his father may live to shew and prove their attachment to 
your Grace and your Family is the fervent prayer of 

My Lord 

Your Dutyfull 
and most obedient humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 

^ On July i8 Cumberland left Fort Augustus for London, and on December i, 1746, 
sailed for Holland. — Scots Magazine, vol, viii., pp. 342, 592. 
^ Fort Augustus, Fort George, Fort William. 

B 



lO THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

At Mr- Hodgson's return, who went from hence three Days ago, 
and Conways, sent this morning, wee expect great news, if not before. 

When Your Grace sends me my Commission and instructions, I 
hope you'll give me powers suitable to ye present times. 

I beg my respects to her Grace and the Duke of Grafton. I hope 
he remembers what he said to me in the Queens Drawing room y^ Day 
after we received the news of Falkirk. 

Endorsed : — Rd- 21 (by Lambe). 

VIII. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Fort Augustus, July y^ 22^1 1746. 
My Lord, 

Having been ordered by His Royal Highness at his Leaving 
this Camp,^ that I should correspond with your Grace ; in consequence 
to His Commands, I take the Liberty to inform you that since then I 
have had no satisfactory Report from the Officers commanding the 
several Detachments ordered out by His Royal Highness the 13th in- 
stant,^ or intelligence from those of this country I expected to hear from. 
I beg the Favour of Your Grace to assure His Majesty that I shall 
not leave this Place till the Hopes of securing the Pretender's Son are 
all over, and that I shall do all in my Power to effect the Orders left 
with me by the Duke, having nothing more in view than to execute the 
Trust reposed in me. 

I hope when Your Grace sends me the instructions relating to my 
future Conduct that they may be agreable to my way of acting 
effectually to curb the ill intentions of the People of this Country. 
I am with great Respect, 
My Lord, 
Your Grace's most obedient humble servant, 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — R^- Aug*- i^t. 

1 S.P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 33. No. 52. ^ Qn July 18. 

•^ On July 10 Prince Charles returned to Borradale from his wanderings among the islands. 
His guides (Old Mackinnon and John Mackinnon) were almost immediately made prisoners 
(Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 56). News of the Prince's return to the mainland was sent to Fort 
Augustus, and a force of 1500 men was ordered out to scour the coast. — Scots Magazine, vol. 
viii., p. 341, 



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IX. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Fort Augustus, July 25, 1746. 
My Lord, 

This Day the several Detachments of His Majesty's regular 
Troops, sent out by His Royal Highness the Sunday ^ before he left this 
Place, returned this Day to camp, as did the night before last to Fort 
William Captain Scott's,^ vastly fatigued, almost naked, having met 
with no success or any certain intelligence about the Pretender's Son. 
I had a private information three Days ago, that he was gone from 
Mover last Wednesday was sennight * before the Chain ^ was entirely 
formed to Lochahar, where he was met by Loch Gary with seventy men 
armed, who escorted him from thence into Badenoch.^ This report was 
contradicted by my Lord Loudoun, who with the Highlanders guards 
the Pass. However, I sent notice of it to Lord Ancram upon the Sea 
Coast, to lay an imbargo upon all ships, to be very strict in his search 
of the Country about him ; and to Brigadier Mordaunt at Perth, and Sir 
Andrew Agnew at Blair, to know the Truth of these Reports and to act 
accordingly. Soon after I heard he was gone North through the 
Mac Kenzie's Country into Caithness ; '^ of this I immediately sent 

^S.P. Scotland, Geo, II. Bundle ^i. No. 52- ^July 13. 

^ Oil June 20 Capt. Carolina Scott had landed at Loch Boisdale in South Uist within a 
mile of where the Prince was then hiding. He was closing in upon the Prince on June 27 
just before his transformation into " Betty Burke" and his departure with Flora Macdonald to 
Skye. — The Lyon, vol. i., pp. 370, 373. 
*July 16. 

^ A letter from Lochaber of July 20 says that besides General Campbell's militia and 
Loudoun's irregulars, " there was, besides, a chain of centries, or small guards, from 
Inverness to Fort Augustus, and from Fort William to Inverary, within a small distance of 
each other, and stronger guards at important passes ; so that it was thought almost impossible 
he [the Prince] could escape". — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 341; cf. The Lyon, vol. ii., 
p. 364. 

^ The Prince, in fact, set out from Morar on July 18, and made his way northward to 
Glenshiel, where he was on July 22. Cf. my Rising 0/17^$, p. 201. 

''As a fact, upon reaching Glenshiel, the Prince (July 22) turned eastward through 
Strathclunie to Glenmoriston, where he was lurking in a cave on the date of Lord Albemarle's 
letter, Cf. Rishig of 1745, pp. 206 et seq. 



12 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

notice to Lord Fortrose, to begi^of him to exert his warm zeal in His 
Majesty's Service, from whom yet I have no answer. I farther had 
intelHgence that he was still in the Lands of Mover and Knoydart. But 
this is impossible, Colonel Conway and Cap*- Scott having scoured that 
whole country. The last Report that I had was, that he and two more 
went in a Boat from thence, before the King's Troops could get there, 
to the Long Island ; of which I sent notice by Express to Commodore 
Smith, who now lies off Tobor Morie. Captain George M^Kay with his 
independent Company, and Captain Munro of Culkairn with three Com- 
panies under his command, are still in that country, besides My Lord 
Loudoun at the same Post where he was ordered by H.R.H. I neither 
shall leave off the Pursuit or Hopes of aprehending the Pretender's Son 
till I have orders to march into Quarters, notwithstanding the very bad 
weather we have within these three Days, or the want of Cloathing for 
our Men. 

I am with great Respect, 

My Lord, 
Your Grace's most humble and obedient Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 
Endorsed : — R<^- Aug*- 4. 

X. 

Sir Everard Fawkener to the Earl of Albemarle,^ 

Edenburgh the 31st July 1746. 
My Lord, 

If any thing of moment had hapned I should not have 
failed giving your Lordship an account of it, but I did not think the 
bare offices of my respect worth troubling you with a letter on purpose. 
When His Royal Highness was here^ there were some complaints 
of the behavior of the Dragoons, which His Royal Highness orderd 
me to write about, but as no particular facts had been mentiond, or 

1 Feilden MSS. 

^The Duke of Cumberland was in Edinburgh upon July 21 on his way to London. — 
Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 342. 



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Persons named, I did not know where to address my Self.^ I here 
inclose your Lordship a Copy of a Complaint against Captain Hamil- 
ton,^ one of my Letter to Him upon the occasion, and his Letter to 
Lord Justice Clerk, which He put into my hands. I know nothing 
of Captain Hamiltons orders, but I think there can be no great in- 
convenience in suspending further proceedings of this nature til His 
Royal Highness's pleasure may be known, or at least til your Lordship 
can give such directions as You may think necessary. I hope, there- 
fore, I shall not be thought to have done amiss. 

I take for granted your Lordship is fully informed of every thing 
relating to the imbarcation. I will, however, just mention that the 
Troops came to Burnt Island on Tuesday, and that every thing will 
be on board to morrow, but Captain Barker tels me He dos not think 
the Tydes will serve to carry the Ships into Leith Road, so that [they] 
may [not] be ready to sail til Sunday.^ 

I dont hear any sort of news ; a great alarm is taken at the 
sending for Sir John Douglas by a Messenger under Confinement ; 
the combinations made are, that this order was issued about the time 
of the Conferences of the Kings Ministers with Murray.* 

Your Lordship will wonder what I have been doing here, and so 
do I, but these People will not leave me at quiet to do what I had in 
command from His Royal Highness ; however I have almost got 
through, and shall take my leave I hope for good and all of this 

^Various petty accusations appear to have been brought against officers of the army at 
this time. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 343 et seq. 

^Against Captain Charles Hamilton of Cobham's dragoons complaints were urged (i) 
by Thomas Ogilvie of Coul, to the effect that Hamilton had impounded the cattle and effects 
of his tenants; (2) by John Watson of Turin, near Forfar, who accused Hamilton of having 
wrongfully imprisoned him. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 344, 346, 596. A letter from 
Hamilton to the Lord Justice-Clerk, of the date August 4, is printed infra, No. XXXIX. 

' When the camp at Fort Augustus was broken up on July 18, Wolfe's, Pulteney's, and 
Sempill's regiments were ordered to embark for Flanders. According to Sir Everard's letter, 
they reached Burntisland on Tuesday, July 29, and were expected to sail on Sunday, August 3. 
Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 342 ; and Nos. XXIX., XXXVIII. infra. 

■^Sir John Douglas, of Kilhead, M.P. for Dumfriesshire, had visited the Prince at 
Bannockburn House early in January, 1746, on behalf of the English Jacobites, to inform him 
that a sum of ;^io,ooo was at his disposal. On July 24, John Murray of Broughton, then a 
prisoner in the Tower, informed against him. He was arrested in Edinburgh on July 28, and 
was sent up to London on July 31. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 343 ; The Lyon, vol. ii., 
p. 238, and Appendix, No. XV. infra. 



14 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Country on Saturday morning.^ I have not the means of moving so 
fast as my Master, but I hope to reach London the sixth. There or 
wherever else my Lot may dispose of me I shall be very desirious of 
being honord with your Lordships Commands, and shall be proud of 
every occasion of giving the least proof that I am with the greatest 
truth and sincerest respect 

My Lord 
Your most obedient Humble Servant, 

EVERARD FAWKENER. 

1 Lord Justice Clerk just brings me the enclosed, which I send to 
your Lordship that the best use may be made of it. I imagine some 
of Commodore Smyths Cruisers are off the Orkneys and that He may 
by this time be come round. I also send you a Letter I received by 
the last Post relating to the acceptance of the Poor man recommended 
by your Lordship to His Royal Highness to be placed upon the Out 
Pension of Chelzea Hospital without appearing there. 

Endorsed : — A[nswered] Augst 5th. 

XI, 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle. ^ 

Fort Augustus, August the first, 1746. 
My Lord, 

I return your Grace Thanks for the Honour of your com- 
pliment in your Dispatch to Lord Justice Clerk, who has acquainted 
me that he had apprehended and sent to London Sir John Douglas.^ 

Since my last, I have employed Friends (if any in these Hills) and 
Foes to procure me intelligence about the Pretender's Son ; but have 
had none whatsoever for these five days past. He was then supposed, 
as I acquainted His Royal Highness last Post, to be lurking about Loch 

1 He had accompanied the Duke of Cumberland from Fort Augustus, but " having some 
affairs of importance to settle at Edinburgh," remained there after the Duke's departure, and 
set out for London on August 2. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 342. 

^S.P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 2. * Cf. supra, p. 13. 



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Brume,^ on the Western Coast, ill attended, hiding himself in the Day 
time and moving about from Place to Place at Night. 

As the weather grows very bad and cold, the Men without Cloaths, 
having wore these sixteen months, and the Tents quite worn out, I 
hope I shall have His Majesty's commands to march the Troops 
into Quarters and leave Lord Loudoun at this Place, who with the 
Highlanders may not only suppress any of the Rebells, were they to 
assemble in small Bodies for the Defence of the Cattle, but also appre- 
hend the Pretender's Son, if he should remain in this Country ; and I 
am sure, if he should venture to Sea, by the great care of Commodore 
Smith, and the Disposition of His Majesty's Ships of War, he cannot 
escape him.^ 

I am with great Respect 

My Lord 

Your Grace's 

Most obedient and most humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed: — R^- ii. 

xn. 

George Douglas to Major Roper. ^ 

Dear Sir, 

You very agreeablie surprised me by having the Honnour of 
a Letter from yow. I knew nothing of your being so nere as Furt 
Augustus until I was favourd with it. 

Comodore Smith with the ffleet is Saild. I hope he will have 
Success ; a ffleet was seen off Chester Cost Steering this way ; whether 
it be any of those the Highlander told me was at Polew or not is 

^ The Prince remained in Glenmoriston until August i, the date of Lord Albemarle's 
letter. He then moved northward to Strathglass, where he was on August 2. Cf. Rising of 
1745, p. 208. 

^ The Commodore's disposition of his ships appears in his letter to Lord Albemarle of 
August 7. Cf. infra, No. LL 

^ Feilden MSS. Major Roper was Lord Albemarle's Military Secretary. 



l6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

unsertain, but the same man was in this day and he Affirms there is 
Meall, Beeff, Brandy, etc. Landing in that Country for the Support of 
the Rebells, and they give out that when the Pretenders Second Son ^ 
makes a decent in the South, those Shipes on the Cost will Land in the 
North ; this the Miserable Wretches in the Country beleive will happen. 
Lieut Balfours Letter by the Express I delivered him, since then he 
sent off a Tender that Lay here waiting orders. I shall be extreeme 
Glad of an opportunity of seeing so Worthy a ffriend and old Aquaint- 
ance as Cap. Roper, who I begg may believe me to be with great 
Esteem 

Dear Sir 

Your most obedient and very humble Servt. 

GEORGE DOUGLASS. 
Fort William 
ye ist Augt 1746. 

P.S. — I was told yesterday that Locheail was very lately in Appin, 
in which Country Cap* Scot and the old Garrison of this place is.^ I 
aquainted him of it, as it is probable he may be yet there ; the Cap* has 
mett with no Success yit in that Country. 

Endorsed : — A. Augst s^- 



xin. 

Brigadier Mordaunt to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Perth August ist 
9 at night 
My Lord, 

I had this moment yours of the 30th, and shall with pleasure 
wait 'till your Lordship judges my going to England convenient. 

1 shall immediatly follow your Lordships orders in writing to Ld 

^ Prince Henry Benedict, afterwards Cardinal York. 

2 Captain Carolina Scott was of Guise's regiment. It had been relieved by Houghton's 
at Fort William on May 31, 1746, after having withstood the siege conducted by the High- 
landers from March 5 to April 3. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 286, 

3 Feilden MSS. 



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Justice Clerk, and the people will be highly pleased at the Embargo's 
being taken off.^ 

In case you should order parties from hence with the state prisoners, 
I shall cloath Skelton's Regiment with all dispatch. Clerk Miller, who 
is to prosecute 'em at Carlile, is already set out for Edinburgh, and has 
got his Evidence ready. 

I am 

Your Lordships most obedt Servant 

J. MORDAUNT.2 

To-morrow I shall order back the additional reinforcements. 
Endorsed ; — A. 8th. 

XIV. 
Robert Turnbull to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I have the Hon^ to Congratulate your Excellence on your 
being appointed Commander in Chief of the Army in Scotland ; as His 
Royall Highness the Duke of Cumberland could not allways be in this 
Country, His Majesty could hardly supply his room with a person 
more Agreeable to his best and truest subjects. 

The late Great King William was a good Judge of Men and their 
Stated Principalis. He highly valued and justly raised the Earles of 
Albemarle and Portland to the Peerage of England at the Happy 
Revolution, and while their Descendants of the same honest principalis 
are put in posts of trust and Importance, we need not fear French 
Councells or Arms, nor yet Jacobites plotts or Schemes. 

When the present troubles are over I hope to have the honour of 
waiting on you at Ed^ ; for the Meantime its my Duty as Lieut Gov^r 

^ Towards the close of July it was believed that Prince Charles intended to endeavour 
to escape from Scotland from one of the north-eastern or eastern ports. An embargo was 
accordingly laid upon several ports in obedience to directions issued by the Lord Justice- 
Clerk on July 27. The embargo was taken off early in August. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., 

P-39I- 

^ Brigadier Mordaunt, with the Royal, Skelton's and Sackville's regiments, and the 
artillery train, was stationed at Perth. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 342. 

' Peilden MSS, 

C 



1 8 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

of this Castle in the Govers abscence to Acquaint your Excellence (as 
the Secretary of Warr may) that soon after His Majestys Accession 
to the throne, he gave directions to L" Gen'i Wade, than Commander 
in Chief, that all Vacancys of private men in this and other Garrisons 
should be supplyed out of Marching Regts quartered in Scotland, by 
such honest Men as had behaved well, and who by age or other 
Infirmitys were not able to endure long marches or other fatigues in 
the Army, and yet be able to do Garrison Duty, And for that purpose 
the Genii ordered the Officers of each Garrison to make report of their 
Vacancys four times in the year to him or the Depute Secretary at 
Warr, viz it Febry, it May, it Augt, and it Novem^, And this being 
the first term after the Commencement of your Command, I do myself 
the Hon^ to acquaint you, as I shall the Secretary at War, that we 
have Six Vacancys of private men, which I intreat may be supplyed 
with honest men as soon as possible, the Companys duty being very 
hard because of the Rebell prisoners, and no houses of Security being 
yet built here for such. I take the more freedom to press that the 
Vacancys be fill'd up with honest men because throw one mistake or 
other, to call it no worse, Severall of our Vacancys of late years have 
been supplyed by the dregs and Scum of the Army, Mutineers, pardon'd 
deserters, commoun drinkers, quarrellers, native Irish men, justly sus- 
pected Papists, and your Excellence knowes that one Enimy with in 
the Castle is worse than ane hundred with out, as I have in pairt 
experienced since the Rebellion began, yea since the French Invasion 
was first intended ; and had this Castle been attacted, as I know it was 
designed to be, I must in Consequence of my trust from His Majesty 
been oblidged to turn out Severall of them, when perhaps I might not 
have had time to adress either the Gov"^ or Gen'i for their Approbation ; 
in Straits of that nature ane honest man must do as his Judgement 
directs. I wait your Excellence Commands, having the honour to be, 
with profound Respect 

My Lord 

Your Excellence's most obed* and most humble Serv* 

ROBT TURNBULL. 

Dumbarton Castle 

It Augt 1746. 
Endorsed • — A, 27th. 



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XV. 

Robert Turnbull to Patrick Lindsay.^ 
Sir, 

According to former orders And practice I Send this to 
Aquaint you, as you will the Generall, that we have Six Vacances 
of privat men in this Garrison, And as we have Several prisoners here 
And parties out to guard Some ferries on the Rivers Clyde And Leven, 
which makes the privat mens duty very hard, And therefor I Entreat 
you to mind the Gen"" to Suply our Vacances with honest men As soon 
as possible. 

You know I have of late years Complained to the Generals of Some 
ill men's being Sent here from the Marching Regements, Viz. Mutiners, 
Common drinkers. Native Irsih [sic] men. Suspected papiests, and which 
was like to have had fatal Concequences Since the Rebellion began. I 
hope more Care will be taken Now to Suply us with honest men, and 
your good Offices in this Affair will be good Service to the Government 
And A very Singular favour done to 

Sir 
Your Most hu^l Servtt 

ROBT TURNBULL. 
P.S. please make my Complyments Acceptable to the Generall. 
Dumburton Castle 
ist August 1746. 
To 

Patrick Lindsay Esqr depute Secretary at War at his howse in 
the parliment Close Edinburgh. 

Endorsed : — Augst ist 1746. 

XVI. 

Major Chabane to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I hope you will excuse me in giving your Lordship the trouble 
of this, as alsoe for applying for leave of absence for an officer at a time 

^FeildenMSS. ^Ibid. 



20 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

that we have too few with the Regmt.^ But as Lieut. Harvey has repre- 
sented the affair to me that now offers for his preferment in His 
Majestys Service, and which Cannot be transacted Except he be 
present, as Lieut Harvey is a very good officer in all points of Duty to 
His Majestys Service, I think myself obliged to lay his Case before your 
Lordship, in order to have your Leave of absence for his Compremising 
what now offers for his advancement. 

I am My Lord 
your Lordships Most obeidt and Most humble Ser* 

P. CHABAN. 

Montrose Augt. 2d 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. 7th. 

XVIL 

Lord Sempill to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I take this Opertunity to most Heartily Congratulate Your 
LordsP being Commander in Cheif of His Majestys Forces In Absence 
of His Royall Highness the Duke ; iff it is as agreeable to Your LordsP, 
as I am shure it is to the Army and Countrey, will still make it more 
agreeable, and to non more than my Self, haveing always receved great 
Cevilitys since I had the Honour to be knoun to Your LordsP, and Lately 
your goodness to Ensign Sempill in fixing him in Brig^ Flemings 
Regt. I shall always most Greatfully Acknowlage. My Lord, I am 
Sorry my Health obliges me to truble Your LordP with the present 
state of it, tho I have been confind to this seekly place for this three 
moneths past with Rumatizm and Gravel and no apearance of geting 
well, I most humbly desire Your LordP Leave to go to Edenburgh to 
take advice for the recovary off it ; at presant I can be of no Service to 
His Majestys Service nor to my Self; if I am Honord with Your LordsP 

1 From the official return of August 31 {infra, No. CLV.) five companies of Fleming's 
regiment appear as being then quartered at Montrose. From the return of September i (infra, 
No. CLVL) there were absent from the regiment on that date, the Brigadier, three Captains, 
three Lieutenants, five Ensigns, the Doctor, and the Chaplain. 

- Feilden MSS. 



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Leave I propose to go the Cost way, being perswaded I cant travell 
much above twilve mills, nor can I travell tuo days together in my 
present situation, which obliges me not to think of takeing the Nighest 
way.^ I Humbly Beg Pardon giveing Your LordsP this truble, and 
desire Leave to asshure You I am 

My Lord 
With Great Honour and truth 
Your Lordps Most Humble and most obedient feathfull Servant 




Inverness August 2d 1746. 
Endorsed: — A. Augst 4th. 

XVIIL 

The Earl of Cassillis to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

There happens to be a vacancy in my company of the 
Garrison of Dumbarton Castle. I would Beg leave to recommend to 
your Lordship John Inglis, late a Soldier discharg'd out of the Honble 
Colonel Kerrs Regiment of Dragoons, where he serv'd faithfully and 
honestly for the space of Eighteen years. For the filling up of said 
vacancy, as a Private man. Being very well convinc'd of the mans 
fidelity and ability for that Service. If your Lordship approves of it, 
Be so good as favour me with a line, in order to his being put upon 
the Establishment, which will much oblige 

My Lord 
Your LoPs most obedient and most humble Servant 




Edinburgh 2d August 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. 27th. 

^ Lord Sempill's request does not appear to have been granted. He proceeded to Aber- 
deen on August 12 (cf. his letter of August 13, infra, No. LXXIX.), and superseded the Earl 
of Ancram in the command of that district. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 393. 

2 Feilden MSS. 



12 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

XIX. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Dunbar to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness Augt the 2d 1746. 
My Lord, 

Brigr Mordaunt desires I will send a Subaltern Officer A 
Recruiting into York Shire in the room of Enn. Culton who went on 
that Service, but is dead. I waited on Geni Blakney on this head ; he 
told me I must applie to yr Lordship for leave to send one. I have the 
hon"" to be 

My Lord 
Your Lordships most humble and most Obedt Servant 

THO. DUNBAR. 
Endorsed, : — Lt. Col. Dunbar to L. A. 
Inverness Augst 2d 1746 
A. 4th. 

from Co^i Dunbar^ 
who desires ye favour youl put the Gen^^ in mind to deliver my letter 
to L^ Albemarle about sending an Off'^ recruiting. 

to remind the Genii to acquaint my Lord that Brig^ Mordaunt 
writes me that he has a place in his Coach for me, if my h^ will be 
pleased to give me leave to goe now I shall be in time to overtake yt 
good opertunity. 

The Gen'i will be soe good as to desire my Lords leave for Enn. 
Roberts, who has important business to England. 

when answer is made to this I shall take it as a perticular favour 
if youl Lett me know by Express, which He pay. 

XX. 

DuGALD Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

Having received a Letter from the Overseer of the Works 
at Fortwilliam, acquainting me that he is not supplied with Labourers 

' Feilden MSS. 

^ This appears to be the note of an enclosure to Major Roper in the foregoing. 

» Feilden MSS. 



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from the Regimt there ^ as is Customary, and that the Masons and 
Carpenters are obliged on that Account to serve themselves; which is 
not only a great hinderance to the Works, but adds greatly to the 
expence, 

I am therfore again to trouble Your Lordship, desiring that you 
would be pleased to send a Standing Order to the Commanding OfBcer 
of the Regiment there, to give what Labourers From time to time 
shall be called for by the Overseer of the Works ; they being payed 
by the respective Artificer who's part they are employed on the usual 
price. 

The Bearer returns to Fortwilliam, therfore if it is agreable to 
Your Lordship You will please send the Order by him. 
I am with the greatest Respect 
My Lord 
Your Lordships most Obedient and most humble Servant 

DUG. CAMPBELL. 

Inverness 

2d August 1746. 
To the Rt Honle the Earl of Albemarle Command"" in Chief His 
Majesties Forces in North Brittain. 
Endorsed : — A. Augst 4th. 

XXL 

Lord Balgonie to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness August 2d 1746. 
My Lord, 

'Tho I have not the Honour to be of your LoPs Acquain- 
tance, My afairs at present oblige me to give you This Trouble, to beg 
your LoP will be pleased to grant me Your Leave of Absence from the 
Regiment ^ after we are settled in our quarters at Elgin, to go as far as 
My Lord Levens Seat in Fifeshire. My Lords late bad state of health, 
and my long absence from home are the principal Reasons for my 

^ Houghton's regiment was quartered at Fort William. 
^Feilden MSS. ^ Handasyde's. 



24 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

giving Your Lop this Trouble at present. I have the honour to be 
with great Respect 

My Lord 

Your Lordships 
Most obedient and most humble Serv^ 

Endorsed : — A. Augst 4th. ^y 

xxn. 

Colonel Borland to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I have the Pleasure of finding some of my Northern Friends 
return'd, and very sorry that Y^ L^P is not in the number, but hope 
before or by the Winter you will also come Southward. 

I am return'd, my Lord, to Town at a bad time for me, having 
People at Work in the Country, and no one to overlook them, but hope 
when my Month in Waiting expires that I shall obtain Leave to go 
again to my Family, which I left in the Isle of Wight. 

We have had some Executions, and I hope shall soon have more, 
and fewer Reprieves ; ^ for I confess, my Lord, that my Compassion 
does not extend to the Guilty Rebells, but to the Fatherless, the 
Orphans and those distress'd Familys whom these Villains have ruin'd. 

I this morning presented Mr Lawrence an Ensign in Y' L^ps 
Regimt ^ and I suppose it will not be long before I repeat the same to 
my Nephew, whom Y"^ L<ip has been so good to countenance. His 
Commission bears date 28th June, the day after Mr Lawrence's, but 
where to write to him I know not ; but conclude he has heard from 
Y'' L^P, and is on the road for London. 

1 Feilden MSS. 

' On July 30, Francis Townley, George Fletcher, Thomas Chadwick, James Dawson, 
Thomas Deacon, John Berwick, Andrew Blood, Thomas Sydall, and David Morgan were 
executed at Kensington Common. Eight others were at the same time reprieved for three 
weeks, Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 326. 

^ Lord Albemarle was Cplgnel pf the Coldstream Guards, 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 25 

The long Westerly Winds prevents our hearing any News from 
Flanders, or the moving the Transports from Spithead, who I fear by 
their long lying there will become sickly. 

I have, by H.R. Hss's Directions, this day given Orders for dis- 
charging 5 or 6 Vestry Men out of each Company, the same being done 
two days ago in the first Regimt, but Y^ L^p will see by the Return 
that Ld John Sackville and myself have not that number to dispose of. 

I doubt not when Y^ L^P gets here we shall have your Assistance 
in preventing us from being Sufferers for our Diligence and Care in 
getting so compleat as we have done so soon before all others with Men 
inlisted for Life ; if ever any Consideration be made for it, as in Reason 
and Justice there ought. I have, my Lord, nothing more to add but to 
inform Y"^ L^P the Regimt looks very well, and we have already great 
Numbers less Sick than was before the Hospital was finish'd, and doubt 
not but the Regiment will receive great Benefit from it. I will detain 
Yr L^P no longer, but with my best and most hearty Wishes for Y"" 
Ldps Welfare, and subscribe myself 

My Lord 
Yr L^ps most Humble and most Obedt Servt 

A. BORLAND. 
Park Street 3d Augt 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. Sept 4th. 

xxni. 

Captain Carolina Scott to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Ardsheill 3d Agust 1746. 
My Lord, 

I am Just now Honnour'd with your letter of ist Instant, 
and shall wait upon your Lordship as soon as I get to fort William, 
where I hope to be some time this day. 

I have been detained here longer than I expected by some Infor- 
mations of Rebells and their Catle being near to us, but I find in 
Generall they had notice of our Marching almost as soon as we left 

1 Feilden MSS. 
D 



26 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

fort William, and drove off what Catle the Campbells left them twenty 
miles off in to the Mountains. My Sergeant whom I sent to Glasgow 
for shoes return'd to me last night with shoes. 

Captain Miller, who was att Appin House, had a few Arms brought 
in te him from different people. 

I hope to morrow by Noon to have the Honnour of waiting upon 
your Lordship. 

I am my Lord 

your most Obedient Humble Servant 





To The Right Honorable The Earl of Albemarle Lt. Gil. and 
Commander in Chief of His Majestys Forces in North Brittain. 



XXIV. 

John Maclachlan to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

Last night a fellow I sent towards the braes of Knoedort 
returnd, who Informs me that McDonald of Lochgerry Sent a Servant 
Sometime ago to the McKinzies's Countrey ; he returnd thursday was 
Seneight ^ to his Master with a letter, who was then near the head 
of Lochcouach [Loch Oich] ; he told a friend of his that day that he had 
been amongst the McKinzies to look after Frence Ships, and that in 
Pollew he counted twenty Six of them ; he stayd there a day and a 
night, got bread and beeff from Some of the people belonging to the 
Ships, who made him drunck with brandy ; he askt what reason they 
had for keeping so quiet ; they answerd their designe was to keep very 
quiet till they hear of the Pretender's Second Son landing with troops 
in the South ; how far McDonald's Servant told truth I cannt say, but 
the person he spoke to, and my fellow who had it as a great Secret from 
yt person, are convinced its fact. Im likewise informd that McDonald 

1 Feilden MSS. ^ July 24. 



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went soon yrafter towards Pollew ; another told me yesterday he came 
back to the braes of Glengarry three days agoe ; ^ ye same person tells 
me that two French Ships calld lately at Lochbroome, which is 12 
miles north of Pollew, and went Away immediatly after asking where 
the pretender's Son was.^ No doubt your Lordship heard of two men of 
Genii. Johnston's Regement being most barbarously wounded near this 
place Soon after the battle of Culloden ; this fact was committed by one 
Murdoch Cameron yt was principall actor, [he] is a relation to Cameron 
of Glenevis. Murdoch's Uncle, Angus Cameron and another rebel! 
were with him, they stay in the hills betwixt the braes of Glenevis 
and Ranich. Im told from Stirlingshire yt the famous Robert Roy 
McGrigar's three sons stay mostly about Inversnaid ; they were all 
officers in the Rebellion and keep some armd men oppressing and plun- 
dering the Nieghbours, which theill continue till [your] Lordship order 
troops there. I send your Lordship a note of the names of Severall 
rebell officers yt stay in the braes of Stirlingshire. Im 

My Lord 
Your Lordship's most humble and obedt Servant 

JOHN MACLACHLAN. 

Fortwillm 3 Agust 1746. 

Endorsed : — Answer'd by his Brother 4th. 



XXV. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Jackson to Major Roper.^ 

Dear Roper, 

I in the first place am to wish you joy, which I most heartily 
do, on your being appointed Aid de Camp and Secretary to Lord Albe- 
marle, whose good sense and good breeding must make any post under 

^ On August 14 the Prince, who had been travelling towards Poolewe in the hope of 
finding a French ship there, had returned southward and was in Glengarry. Lochgatry 
joined him there on August 15. — Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 65. 

2 This was, clearly, the ship which landed two French officers who brought despatches 
to the Prince, whom they overtook and interviewed near Loch Arkaig about August 21. — Ibid., 
P-65. 

i* Feilden MSS. 



28 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

him perfectly agreeable. I recollect my Prophetic spirit in Ireland, 
when gloom and spleen reduced you to think you should die a Lieu- 
tenant. I always answered that those particals of latent merit within 
would necessarily break out and you at last shine. Shine you do, 
therefore I humbly offer myself to your propitious influence in favour 
of our friend Capt. Hugh Morgan, whose distresses, besides that of 
never being sound, are infinite, tho in the present case [he] is innocent. 

Lord Ancram ^ thought fit that the ist of Augst, the accession of 
the late King and consequently of the present Establishment, should 
be taken notice of in a publick way. Our Regiment ^ was order'd under 
arms and fir'd at noon, as did the Fort at night. The Officers all met, 
the Duke of Gordon who happen'd to be here on his way to London 
supp'd with us, the Town Clerk and Collector of the Customs. Im- 
mediately after supper the King's health, the Royal Family, and the 
Duke were drank, and had each a volley of small arms of ten file. 
They then had some money given them and went to their quarters. 

Whilst this was going on, as many windows were light up, and as 
Lord Ancram had sent in the morning to the Magistrates desiring they 
would illuminate, as is the Custom here on all rejoicings, I thought 
the whole was light, but in a very short time a message came to 
tell me the mob and some soldiers among them were breaking all 
windows that were not light, and among others the Town house. I 
instantly orderd the guard to disperse the Mob and prevent further 
mischief; the Officer of the guard very prudently executed his orders, 
and Detach'd twelve men and a Serjeant to the old town to prevent 
their hurting that, as not a man could be seen here ; by this means 
that place received no sort of damage. 

Capt. Morgan went into the street with Two other Officers of the 
Regiment, who actually endeavourd before the guard came up to save 
the windows, but to no purpose, as the townspeople were numerous, 
and the soldiers, the few that there was, so intermix'd as not to be 
come at. The reward and Thanks he has got is, that several of the 
meaner sort have sworn Morgan was with the Mob incouraging them, 

^ On April 30, 1746, the Earl of Ancram had been sent from Inverness to assume the 
command of the forces upon the eastern coast. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 237. 

^ Brigadier Fleming's. Five companies of it v^fere quartered at Aberdeen, and five were at 
Montrose. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 20 

nay one who swore heartily swears he threw stones. This, or his 
Encouraging it, I Am Convinced are not fact, but absolutely malicious, 
and the Two Officers who were present Declare he did just the Con- 
trary. The Magistrates of the place arrested Capt, Morgan last night 
on this information, and I was obliged — except I had taken him from 
them by force — to Bail him for his appearance.^ 

Ever since we came here they have been Disobliging in every 
article, frequently insolent, and increasing constantly in it. 

Morgan was on Command with me in the hills and very active in 
Ferritting Gentlemen who were and are lurking, some of whom are 
of this Neighbourhood. I take that to be one of their reasons of spleen. 
Could they play either Lord Ancram or your humble Servant such 
a turn as to be of prejudice I believe we are pretty sure of their 
Interest. 

Lord Ancram writes to Lord Albemarle.^ Nothing can mortify me 
like His Lordships thinking otherwise than favourably of the Regiment, 
who I hope will not be thought in fault. 

Their impertinence to poor Morgan is beyond any thing. 

Lieut. Ackland's father is dead in Ireland and he left Executor, his 
affairs require him there. Be so good to ask Lord Albemarle's leave of 
absence for a month, he will be punctuel. 

I Am Dear Jack, 

Ever very sincerely yours 

GEO JACKSON. 

Aberdeen Augst 3d 1746. 

Endorsed: — Ans. 6th. 

1 A considerable amount of correspondence on the subject of the riot at Aberdeen on 
August I is printed in this volume. Cf. the Index. The Scots Magazine (vol. viii., p. 393) 
adds a detail or two to Colonel Jackson's account. It asserts that the accession of the 
Hanoverian dynasty "has not been in use to be observed since the death of the late King 
[George the First], nor is it usual in Scotland to commemorate annually the accession of any 
monarch but the reigning one. The bells were however rung at Aberdeen ; but no order was 
given for illuminations." It is sufficiently clear that the relations between the civil and military 
authorities at Aberdeen, as elsewhere in Scotland, were considerably strained. 

2/M/m, No. XXVL 



^6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

XXVI. 

The Earl of Ancram to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I think it my Duty to lay before your Lordship what hapn'd 
here the first day of this month. I sent to the Magistrates to let them 
know that it being the Accession of the Royal Family to the Crown 
that I intended to order the Troops to fire, and recommended to 
them to order the Inhabitants to illuminate their Windows as they 
do on all rejoicings (by beat of Drum) ; they sent me no answer, and 
I concluded that they had done it, but they since tell me that they would 
not order it, not being used to take notice of that day. I told them 
that if even they never had done it before, that I was surprized that 
they should at this time especially refuse to show any marks of Loyalty ; 
they are very far from allowing that they were in the wrong ; in the 
evening the officers met to celebrate the day, and I declare that I 
imagined that the town was illuminated, seeing some windows on the 
Market place light up (which they had done without order). I remain'd 
in that mistake, till going home about eleven o'Clock [I] was told that 
some of the Soldiers and Mob of the town had broke a great many 
windows where there was no Candles ; the Guard was immediately 
ordered out to prevent disorders, but the windows were broke and the 
Breakers retired before Colonel Jackson or I heard a word of it. The 
Magistrates yesterday sent and arrested Captain Morgan, alledging that 
he incouraged the breaking of the Windows. I have examined as 
narrowly as I can into the affair and do veryly believe that he endeavoured 
to prevent it ; he declares that he saved all the windows he could, which 
is vouched by two officers who happend also to be in the Street at the 
time. This, my Lord, is the plain fact as far as I can learn, which I 
thought my Duty to represent to your Lordship as soon as possible. I 
have the honour to be with the greatest respect 

My Lord 

Your Lordships 
most Obedient and most Humble Servant 

Aberdeen 

August 3d 1746. ..^.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

Endorsed : — A. 6th. 

1 F^lden MSS. 




THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 3 1 

XXVII. 

The Magistrates of Aberdeen to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

As His Royal Highness The Duke hath now left our 
northern part of Britain, We beg leave to join with the many other 
well affected Subjects in expressing our Thankfulness that Providence 
has directed His Majesty to bestow the chief Command on such a wise 
and brave General as your Lordship, hoping that by your prudent con- 
duct wee shall Enjoy that Peace and Tranquility which has been lately 
restored to us. 

But we heartily Regrete that our Compliments of Congratulation 
to Your Lordship should be attended with an Account of a Notorious 
Ryot and Breach of the Peace committed in this City, friday night last, 
the first of this month, By breaking the Windows of the Townhouse 
and a great number of the Windows of our Inhabitants, with their 
furniture, and endangering their Persons by throwing Stones in the 
Night time and Intimidating the Citizens. The Damnage appears to 
be very great, how soon its computed we shall Acquaint your Lordship 
thereof. Meantime we found it our Duty as Magistrates and Justices 
of Peace to take a Precognition of the Facts, in order to discover who 
were the Authors, Abettors and Actors of this Crime. And we're 
heartily sorry to see by the Evidences that the same has been com- 
mitted by a party of Brigadier Flemings Regiment lying here, And that 
even some of the officers have been concerned therein, if not the Authors 
of it ; As your Lordship will perceive by the Copy of the Precognition ^ 
herewith sent, which is the most Authentick Account can be given of 
the Affair as it happned, and We judged it our Duty to lay it before 
your Lordship. 

Wee have the Utmost Regard for all His Majestys Troops, and 
never fail to Cultivate a good Correspondence with the officers, and 
Embrace every Opportunity to accommodate them and the private men 
so far as in our Power. But as our Inhabitants have Exhibited a 
Charge on Account of this Ryot, and for Reparation of their Damnages, 

^FeildenMSS. 

^ This document is not among the Feilden MSS. 



32 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

We are under an absolute Necessity, in pursuance of the Trust com- 
mitted to us by His Majesty, to proceed in this matter according to 
Law, wherein we hope to have your Lordships Approbation, and tho' it 
be a very dissagreable thing to be concerned in a Prosecution ag* any of 
His Majestys Troops who have come for our Deliverance. 

We wish all Manner of Happiness to your Lordship and the Troops 
under your Command, and have the Honour to be with perfect Truth 
My Lord 

Your Lordship's most faithfull and 
most obedient humble Servants 

JAMES MORISON Provost. 
WILLIAM MOWAT Bailie. 
WILLIAM GORDON Bailie. 
ALEXR COPLAND Bailie. 
Abdn 3 August 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. 6th. 

XXVIII. 

Commodore Smith to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I have the Honour of your Lordships of the 28th and 2gth 
Instant. As you tell me you have certain Information that the pre- 
tenders Son is Landed in Lock Broome and that you do not depend 
much on the News of a Fleets being seen of Chester,^ I have sent the 
Serpent to Cruise off Lock Broom, and sent Orders to the Tryton, Grey 
hound and all the Sloops to attend principally to prevent His Making 
His Escape from Lock Broome or any other part according to Intelli- 
gence they may receive, and I have sent to General Campbell to Inform 
Him of the pretenders Sons being at Lock Broome. I am informed 
that He may make His Escape over the High Hills between Strathnaver 
and Sutherland into Cathness in two Days, and that the people of 
Cathness are great Rebels. I submit it to your Lordships Consideration 
if sending two or three Companys to Cathness to Guard the Ferrys 
between that and the Orkneys might be serviceable or not. I have 
wrote to Captain Moody to have a Good Look out at the Orkneys in 

1 Feilden MSS. 2 cf. supra, No. XII. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 33 

Case He should Come that Way. I have orderd Captain Loyd of the 
Glascow of twenty Guns ^ to Go to Cromerty and there Wait Your 
Lordships directions for Convoying any ships to Leith, and from Lieth 
to the Murry Frith, and after seeing the Said Ships into the Murry Frith 
to Cruize three days off Frazierburgh, and then proceed to Sheerness, 
but if While He is in Cromerty Your Lordship Lets Him know you 
would have Him put into Cromerty on His return from Lieth, He is to 
do so. I would willingly have sent two Ships on this Service, as two rather 
than one seems to be your Lordships Inclination, but as this is A critical 
time for preventing the Escape of the Son of the pretender I dare say 
your Lordship will be satisfy'd with one. I have received the Six 
prissoners and shall dispose of them as mentioned in your Lordships 
Letter. I will take Care you shall have two Ships to pass between 
Lieth and Inverness to Guard your Storeships, 

I am, my Lord, with the Greatest respect 

your Lordships most Obedient Servant 




Eltham in Kerrara or Horse Shoe Harbour. 
[August] ye 3d 1746. 
To ye Earl of Albemarle. 
Endorsed : — Answered 3d. 

XXIX. 

Major-General Bland to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Sunday, Stirling 3d August 1746. 
My Lord, 

On Fryday Morning we finished the Embarkation of the 
Brigade ^ at Burnt Island ; and as soon as the Tyde Rises High enough 

^ The Glasgow had joined the Commodore on July 22, after having captured a French 
brigantine which was suspected of being engaged in an attempt to carry off Prince Charles to 
France. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 341, and p. 46, infra. 

^Feilden MSS. 

^I.e., Wolfe's, Pulteney's, and Sempill's regiments. Cf. Fawkener's letter of July 31, 
supra. No. X, 

E 



34 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

to Float the Vessells, they will Sail out of the Harbour and join their 
Convoy in the Road of Leith, which, as the Tydes encrease now every 
day, they were in hopes of doing last Night, or this Morning ; were they 
out, they might be at Williamstadt in three days, as the Wind now 
Stands. 

Enclosed is an Exact Return as they Embark'd. I have Sent a 
Copy of it to Colonel Napier to be laid before H.R.H. 

As my Orders were only to See the Brigade Embark'd, I return'd 
to this Town Yesterday, that I may be ready to receive and Execute 
Your Lordships Commands, whenever you are pleased to Honour me 
with them. 

Col. Leighton Acquainted H.R.H. when he was here,^ that His 
Mother having died lately, He would Suffer much in His private Affairs 
if he could not have leave to go to England for some time to look after 
them, and therefore hoped H.R.H. would permit him to go. The Duke 
answer'd, that as things now Stood, He could not comply with His 
request, but when matters were a little more Settled, and that the 
King's Service would allow of his Absence, he did not doubt but Your 
Lordsp would grant Him leave. As I was present when this happen'd, 
Col. Leighton desired I would Mention it to Your Lord^P. 

On my Return hither Yesterday, I found Mr Bruce in this Town. 
He Shew'd me the Power he had from H.R.H. to Examine all the 
State Prissioners in every Town he shall pass thro' ; which are indeed 
very full and Strong, and Empowers him to Bail out anyone where 
Evidence can't be found to Convict them, and to prepare Evidence for 
the most Criminel ; however he has Baill'd out none here, nor won't do 
it, but in concert with Lord Justice Clerk as his Powers direct ; so that 
when any are to be Baill'd here, the Order will be Sign'd by both, 
and the Sum to be taken particularly Specified ; after which I am to 
Transmit the Bail Bonds to Lord Justice Clerk. These were the 
Stipulations agreed on between Mr Bruce and Me, without which I 
would not Release any of the State Prissoners 'till I had an order from 
Your Lordsp. I am of opinion Mr Bruce will Act very cautiously 
here, and Probably he will do the same every where else ; at least I 
hope so* 

^ The Duke of Cumberland, after surrendering his command at Fort Augustus on July i8, 
was at Stirling on July 20, 1746. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 342. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 35 

The Affidavits I had taken against Mr Edminston^ are dehverd 
to Mr Bruce, who Set out for Edinburgh last Night, that he may lay 
them before Lord Justice Clerk. Mr Bruce thinks they are Sufficient 
to Convict him. I remain with the utmost Respect 
My Lord 

Your Lordships Most obedient and most 
Humble Servant 



M^^.-^^ 



My Lord, 

Just as I had finished the above, I had the Honour of Your 
Lordsps of the 31st July by Express, together with the list of the Men 
on Command at Castle Menzie, Blair and Aberdeen ^ at the time of the 
Battle of Culloden, with directions to distribute the £^2.'] 5 o. remaining 
of the five Thousand Pounds given by the City of London,^ in proportion 
to their Pay ; but finding, after I had made out the Return of the Serjts, 
Corporals, Drum^s, and Private Men that were on those Commands, that 
it would Exceed the Money given to those who were Actually at the 
Battle, and concluding that Your Lord^p would not think it just that 
the Men on Command should have more than those at the Battle, I 
have therefore put them on an equal Footing, tho' probably You may 
think it too much ; which if so, may be easily Alter'd on Your letting me 
know Your pleasure. 

The only Dead are mention'd in the list at Blair, whom I have 
struck out entirely, and allow only for those now alive. I am Sure 
Several Died at Castle Menzie ; but whether they are included in the 

1 ? Edmonstone of Newton House, by whom the Prince was entertained on Sept. 12, 

1745. Cf. Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 13 n. 

^ Captain Crosby with a detachment of the Scots Fusiliers appears to have been left in 
Aberdeen at the time of the battle, " a proper force for securing that town from [Gordon 
of] Glenbucket's people or any others". — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 184. 

" During the campaign a War Fund had been opened at the Guildhall. On Feb. 5, 

1746, the fund amounted to ;^i8,435, and on that date a sum of ;^5,ooo " was ordered to be set 
apart for rewards to such private soldiers and non-commission officers as should behave well, 
and 150 soldiers wounded at Preston got 20s. each ". The whole £'5,000 was ultimately voted 
to the rank and file, and an additional ;£'i,ooo was to be raised for non-commissioned officers. — 
Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 94, 295. 



$6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

list Sent me, or left out, I can't say ; nor is there any mention made of 
the Dead at Aberdeen ; so that I have included all the Men in those two 
lists as living. 

Enclosed ^ is a Return of the Men of each Regiment that were on 
those Commands at the time of the Battle of Culloden, with the Money 
to be paid to each Regiment for the Said Number of Men, allowing them 
the Same Sum that was given to those at the Battle. If this meets 
with Your Lord^ps approbation, I shall then give Mr Sawyer directions 
to Credit the Respective Regiments with the Sums allotted them, that 
they may Pay it to their Men. 

The Sum to be Distributed by Your Lord^ps 

Warrant is ...... £427 5 o 

The Sum to be paid to the Men as Mention'd 

in ye Return is . , . , . . 368 13 S^ 



Ballance remaining in Mr Sawyer's hands . £^8 11 3f 
As Major La Frosette has been very Sollicitous for some allowance 
to the Men who were on Command with him, and which Seems reason- 
able, Your Lordsp may allot the above Ballance of ;£'58 11 3I for that 
use if You think proper. I don't know what Numbers were Detatched 
with him from Aberdeen, as I was then at Strabogie, but Supposing they 
were 200 (for the Men he Pick'd up on the road afterwards have not the 
least Pretentions to this Gratuity) it will come to a Crown a Man, and 
;^8 II 3I to be divided amongst the Sergts and Corporals. 

Mr. Dugal Campbell the Enginier is Still at Fort William ; but 
I expect him in a day or two, and then I will deliver Your Lord^ps 
letter. I will Send the letter directed to Capt Campbell, Commanding 
the Perth-Shire Company, as soon as I Possibly can. I remain 

My Lord 
Your Lordships Most Obedient and 
most Humble Servant 

HUM. BLAND. 

Stirling, Sunday Evening 

the 3d August 1746. 
Endorsed : — A. 6th. 

1 The enclosure is not among the Feilden MSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 37 

XXX. 

Major-General Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Horse Shoe Bay, Augt 4th 1746. 
My Lord, 

About one of the Clock this morning I was honoured with 
your Lordps of the 28th of last ; you have heard that I had made 
O'Neil prisoner, a person in great Confidence with the young Chevalier.^ 
He calls Himself a Captain in the French Service,^ and pretends to be 
well known to many of the Austrian Generals, and to a good many of 
our friends at home, but has not His Commission to produce. He has 
given me a Letter open which He desires may be forwarded in order to 
His Commissions being sent over ; this letter I enclose to your LordP 
to be dispos'd of as you shall think proper. All I can say of Him further 
is, that He seems to be a person acquainted with Service, and to have 
what the French call du Monde ; your Lordship from Examining Him 
will be best able to Judge what treatment he merits. 

I have explain'd to your Lordship in my Letter of the 30th past 
the reason of my not pursuing the scheme I had for Searching Loch 
Morer as I formerly propos'd, and from the reasons that made me put 
off that Search I immediatly orderd Lt. Collonel Campbell with the 
whole command to Strontian, except one hundred men left at Tobber- 
morey to Hunt out Some Rebells said to be on the Hills in Mull ; they 
will remain there till Your Lordship's pleasure is known for their 
retiring. 

I have this day received a Letter from the Commanding Officer in 
Mull, with a peice of Intelligence as follows, " This moment (viz Augt 
3d) I received Information from Allan McLean here, that the Pretenders 
Son, Lochiel and four more were in a Sheild House in Glendeasrie Six 
days past, and on observing a party of the Military coming that way 

1 Feilden MSS. 

^ Captain Felix O'Neil had attended the Prince on his flight from Culloden on April 16 
until on June 28 he sailed with Flora Macdonald from South Uist to Skye. O'Neil was made 
prisoner shortly after. — The Lyon, vol. i., p. 373 ; cf. his declaration, infra, No. LVL (Enclosure 

^ His own account of his career is concisely stated in Enclosure i. of Lord Albemarle's 
letter of December 16, itifra. No. CLXXXV. 



3^ Tttfi ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

made their Escape to the Hill, and is Suspected to be return'd to the 
said Sheilling when the Party went off. I am also inform'd that Colonel 
McDonald of Barasdell was in Company with them a day or two before 
they were Surprysd by the party and that he parted with the Pretenders 
Son in as good terms as usual." ^ 

This paragraph is verbatim from my letter, and as Glendeasrie is 
not above 15 or 20 Miles from Fort Augustus I thought it proper to 
give your Lordship the intelligence that you might make what use of 
it you thought necessary ; in the mean time I have Sent this information 
to Lt Col Campbell, but no Orders, as I should rather chuse that should 
come from your Lord^p, who perhaps may have received Some intel- 
ligence of the Same Kind. Since writing this. Captain McNeil, who is 
an exceeding good Partisan and a very active fellow, is arrived, And as 
he was present when McLane gave the above Information He can 
explain it more particularly than can be done in writing ; therefore [I] 
have sent him to be employed as your Lord? shall think proper ; it is 
my humble Oppinion that part of Colonel Campbells Command may 
march from Strontian so as to be at or near Glendeasrie about the 
same time that any Command you may Send Shall get thither. 

I shall give your Lordship no further trouble but to assure you that 
I am with the utmost Sincerity 

My Lord 
Your Lordships most affectionate 

and faithful humble Servant ^ 

P.S. — By the inclosed list of Prisoners I have deliver'd over to 
Commodore Smith to be sent to England, it appears that Lady Clan- 

1 The General's information was correct. On July 20 the Prince was lurking somewhat 
to the north of Glen Dessary when the approach of the military compelled him to seek refuge 
on the top of Druim Cosaidh. He broke through the cordon of troops that surrounded Moidart 
next day (July 21). Colonel Campbell, however, was sent to follow up the General's informa- 
tion. C/. his letter of August 10, in ra, No. LXVL 

^Of Mamore, afterwards (1761) fourth Duke of Argyll. 





THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 39 

ranold has not only been very zealous her Self in Serving and assisting 
the young Pretender while on the Long Island, but has also brought 
Her Husband and Several others into the same Scrape, for which 
reason I think she ought to be sent to London; your Lordship must 
have heard that she is kept close prisoner by my Orders in Her own 
House at Benbicula.^ The Guard upon her is one of my OiBcers with 
some of the Independant Companies. Him I can depend upon, but wish 
the Lady was ordered to Inverness, where she may be put on Board to 
accompany the Evidence. 

Endorsed : — A. 6th. 



XXXI. 

Commodore Smith to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I have your Lordship's Letter of the 31st past reciting some 
Inteligence you received from the Gunner of Fort William. I believe 
the same is no way to be depended on. I propose Going Off Lock 
Broome the first Opportunity of Wind that offers, and shall Leave 
word at Castle Duart Where I may be found if your Lordship has any 
Commands for Me. 

I am. My Lord, with the Greatest respect 

Your Lordships most Obedient Servant 

THOMAS SMITH. 
Eltham in Kerrera 

August ye 4th 1746. 

^ Lady Clanranald had taken an active part in the preparations for the Prince's flight to 
Skye with Flora Macdonald on June 28. She was, in fact, with them when she received a 
summons to attend General Campbell at her house, Nunton, in Benbecula. A few days later 
she and Clanranald were made prisoners. — Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 53. 

2 Feilden MSS. 



40 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

XXXII. 

Lord Lewis Drummond to the Earl of Aberdeen.^ 

My Lord, 

Lorsque j'ay offert de partir par un vaisseau Sans escorte, 
jay conte repondre de ceux qui etoient auec moy comme de moy, en cas 
que quelqu'euenement put arriuer en mer : puisque vous juges apropos 
que j'attende I'escorte d'un vaisseau de guerre, jattendray une autre 
ocasion pour profiter de vos offres. Si vous juges apropos que j'aille 
par terre, on me fait esperer des comodites pour cette voye, dont je 
pourray profiter Si vous le permetes ; je connois trop votre fa9on de 
penser pour doutter que vous ne vous prestres atout ce qui Se pourra 
faire de plus auantageux pour nous ; il ne me reste done qu'a vous 
assurer des Sentiments respectueux auec lesquels j'ay I'honneur d'etre 

My lord 
Votre tres humble at tres obeissant Serviteur^ 



■ ^^'^^^f^M^yt.^O^ 




Si vous aures la bonte de permettre que le major Kenedy^ prison- 
nier fran9ais au fort guillaume fut de nombre de ceux qui partyront 
auec moy, Ce Seroit un bien grand Surcrois aux obligations que je 
vous ay. 

je tacheray de faire connoissance. My lord, auec Mr Berard et de 
profiter du plaisir de Sa compagnie pour le voyage Soit par terre ou 
par mer comme vous le jugeres apropos : charme de vous prouuer en 

1 Feilden MSS. 

^ Lord Lewis Drummond was of the number of the fifty-one French officers who sur- 
rendered to the Duke of Cumberland on April 17, 1746, giving their word of honour not to 
leave Inverness without his permission. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 188. 

^ Kennedy was, about November 22, 1746, imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle. Ibid., vol. 
viii., p. 544 ; cf. his statement in Enclosure ii. of Lord Albemarle's letter of December 16, 
infra, No. CLXXXV. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 4 1 

toutte ocasion ma reconnoissance des bontes dont vous m'auds honor6 
en ce pays. 

A invernes ce 4 aoust 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. 8th. 

XXXIIl. 
Magistrates of Aberdeen to the Lord Justice-Clerk.^ 

My Lord, 

As the Town of Aberdeen has always had the Honour of 
Your Lordships Protection We Judge it proper to give you the earliest 
Notice of anything material that happens to our Corporation. 

The occasion of the present Trouble is to acquaint Your Lordship 
that an Attrocious Riot was committed by some of the Troops quartered 
here friday night last,^ who broke a vast many windows in Town with 
Stones, particularly the Windows of the Townhouse and the Warehouse 
of George Forbes Merch*, wherein Several Mirrours and other goods 
were broke and spoil'd. The Inhabitants were much frighted and 
intimidated and many of them were in danger of their lives, as the Riot 
was in the Night time when they were in Bed. 

We have desired our Agent George Chalmers, Writer to the Signet, 
to wait of Your Lordship and lay before you a copy of the Precognition 
and a Memorial thereanent, that Your Lordship may know the true 
State of the Case. And we must beg the Continuance of Your friend- 
ship and protection to our Town in an affair that so much concerns its 
liberty and property ; and the like may happen to any other Town in 
Scotland if a proper remedy be not soon applyed. We hope Your Lord- 
ship will have the goodness to forgive this trouble, And we have the 
Honour to be with great Esteem, My Lord 

Your LoP's most faithfull and most obedient humble Servants 

[ JAMES MORISON Provost. 
. I WILLIAM MOWAT Baillie. 

^^" WILLIAM GORDON Baillie. 

[ ALEXR COPLAND Bailhe. 

Abdn 4 August 1746. 

Feilden MSS 2 August i. C/. Nos. XXV.-XXVH., supra. 

F 



42 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Follows the Answer 

Gentlemen, 

I received your letter of the 4th and Mr Chalmers laid before 
me the precognition you took of the Ryot that happened in your Town 
the Night of the first of this month. I am sorry that such an unlucky 
accident has happened under your Administration, whose loyalty and 
Steady Zeal for the Royal Family has been approved in the worst of 
times, And I do heartily approve of the resolution you have shown on 
this occasion in defense of the libertys of your Town. You may be 
assured, Gentlemen, that any party of men that will attempt your just 
rights and priviledges will find the law too strong for them, And you 
may depend upon all the assistance that I can give you in defending 
them. 

At the same time you must be sensible of what importance it is to 
His Majesty's Government and to the peace and happiness of this 
Country, and in a particular manner of the Royal Burrows, that the 
Civil Magistrates shall as far as possible maintain and Cultivate a good 
understanding with the Gentlemen of the Army, That differences be- 
tween them be as much as possible prevented, and when they happen, 
that they be accomodated in the softest and easiest way that may be. 
As far as I can Judge by the Precognition, this Ryot (which seems 
indeed to have had an ugly appearance) has had its rise from an ill 
tim'd zeal for the Royal Family, inflamed perhaps with a little too 
much liquor, and it would appear to me that next morning when the 
Officers cooled they repented of what they had done And therefore 
willingly Submitted to find baile to answer before you. I dare say, 
Gentlemen, it will give you great satisfaction that I can assure you 
that the Earl of Albemarle, the Commander in Chief of His Majesty's 
Forces in this Country, has the same Sentiments that I have now 
mentioned of the advantages of preserving a harmony between the Civil 
and Military powers, and has at heart as much as any man can have 
the peace and prosperity of the Country. In these Circumstances there- 
fore I Submit it to you. Gentlemen, Whether it will not be more for the 
advantage of your Town to encourage those generous Sentiments by 
Settleing this unlucky affair in such an amicable manner as to restore 
friendship and good Understanding between the people of Your Town 
and those Ofiicers, than to push matters to extremities and thereby 
make the breach wider. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS, 43 

XXXIV. 

Brigadier Mordaunt to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Perth August 4th. 
My Lord, 

I suspect some letter has miscarried or that there may be 
some mistake about the Deserters of the Royals, as I have had no 
orders from you about 'em since my sending the Court Martial. 

People come to see far and Near about weeding and reaping the 
Corn upon the Rebel Estates, but I imagine Dundass has your Lord- 
ship's orders about it. 

Before you make your distribution of Quarters,^ I think it my Duty 
to mention that Crieff and Castledown are places the Highlanders always 
come near, When they come down for plunder, and that they are passes 
by which meat and provisions are carried to the Rebels in the Mountains. 
Dunkeld, too, is a good Quarter for 50 Men and is within a March of 
several Mountains and Braes where the Rebels hide. Dundie, too, is a 
good Quarter for two Companies. I hint these places to your Lordship 
because I fear this town will not serve for the Brigade and all the 
Train. . 

I have order'd back the last parties from Blair and Castle Menzies, 
and the Embargo is taken off.^ I am 

My Lord 
Your most faithfull and obedt Servant 

J. MORDAUNT. 

His Grace of Athol has this moment bribed me with a Buck full as 
lean as myself. 

4 in the evening 

Since my writing this letter, I receiv'd your Lordships of the 2d, 
and have sent away your letters. 

I shall follow your advice in employing my time as well as I can 

1 Feilden MSS. 

^ Lord Albemarle was on the point of sending the troops into winter quarters. The 
camp at Fort Augustus broke up on August 13. 

" C/. Mordaunt's letter to Lord Albemarle of August i, supra, No. XHI. 



44 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

here with Mirabel's amorous transactions,^ but some of one's own, my 
dear Lord, are more in point. In your french phrase, I wou'd wilHngly 
have read^/«s instead of point. I am with English sincerity 
Your Lordship's Most faithfuU Servant 

J. MORDAUNT. 

I trouble you with a letter and Copy of a Memorial from a person 
[who] was very alert in our Cause at Lovat's House.^ All my request 
is, that you'll enquire about him, and see if he is most fit for your 
purpose. 



XXXV. 

Alexander Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I had the Honnour of Your Lordshipes by Governour Caul- 
field, the Account of Provisions Layd in and Issued, with A Remain 
Your Lordshipe has Inclosed which should have been sent last Saterday 
but waited this Opportunity. 

Generall Campbell made a Charge upon me for the Provisions sent 
here by his orders, but Sir Everard Fawkener told Mr Douglass that he 
must give the Persons who delivered the Provisions his Recept and that 
the General was to make a Demand for the money above. 

1 shall have a Strick Ey over the Artificers to make them forward 
the Building the New Barrack. 

I am with all Respect, My Lord 
Your Lordshipes Most Ob* and ffaithfull Humble Servt 

ALEXR CAMPBELL. 
Fort William ye 4th Augt 1746. 

^ The History of Prince Mirabel was published at London, 1712. It purported to be 
the history of the rise of the great Duke of Marlborough. 

2 This is not among the Feilden MSS. ^ Feilden MSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 45 

XXXVI. 

Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness 4th August 1746. 
My Lord, 

I met with the Inclosed Packet from Colonel Baterau on 
the road hither, and it being too late to inquire into further Particulars, 
I would not loose time in sending the Papers, that I may receive your 
Lordships Commands how I am to treat the Prisoner. 
I am with great Respect 
My Lord 
Your Lordships 
Most humble and most obedient Servant 



S^/it 





Earl of Albemarle. 
Endorsed : — A. 5th. 

(Enclosure) 
Colonel Batereau to Major-General Blakeney. 

Sir, 

A french officer, who Styles himself Lieutinant de la Com- 
pagnie franchi des Volontaires de la Marine, and whose name is 
Monsieur Dudepet, came here last night ; he Says that about two 
months ago he Embarqued with fourteen more Volonteers of the Said 
Company in a french Port on Board of a Small Ship carrying no guns, 
and came in her to the Isle of Vist in Search of the young Pretender, 

1 Feilden MSS. 



46 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

whom he calls the Prince, but not hearing of him in that Island, five of 
them came to the main in order to find him out, and divided themselves, 
taking different Roads ; he and two more took to the Mountains, where 
they were obliged to Separate for fear of falling into the hands of Some 
of our Detachments from Fort Augustus. That after a ramble of 20 
days in the Mountains without any News of the Pretender, finding him- 
self tired and disordered in his health, he went to Mr McKenzie's house 
and Surrender'd to him, who kept him Some days at his house, and Sent 
him here with a Guide ; the Lieutenant brought with him the enclosed 
Letter directed to John McKenzie, and the Guide had the other two 
which are also here Enclosed. I have opened them, and they seem to 
be of no consequence ; if you think So your Self, please to Send them 
back that the people may have them. 

This french officer seems to be an Intelligent Man and probably 
could (if he would) make Some discoverys, but as he is upon the reserve, 
I have on that account thought proper to Lodge him in Town, with a 
Gentry at the Door of his room, and I Shall Keep him So till I receive 
your Commands about him, which please to Send me by the return of 
this Express. I hope you have received the Packett I Sent you by 
another yeasterday ; the Guide who came with the officer is confined to 
the Main Guard. 

When Monsieur Dudepet with his four Companions parted at the 
Isle of Vist with their Ship, which is Called (Bien trouvee), they agreed 
with the Captain to meet him again at the Orchades, but he Says that 
he heard the Ship going there was chaced by Some of our Men of War 
and do not know what is become of her Since ; ^ he farther Says that he 
belives his two Companions are now prisoners at Fort Augustus, one 
of them is Called the Chevalier de Nangis : ^ as this french officer has 

^ On July 22 Commodore Smith had been joined at Tobermory by three men-of-war, one 
of which, the Glasgow, reported her recent capture of a French brigantine, which was probably 
M. Dudepet's Bien Trouvee. The brigantine was captured on the western coast, and had since 
June been endeavouring to discover and carry off the Prince. She had seventeen French officers 
on board, " all dressed in rich laced cloaths," and five others (the number corresponds with 
M. Dudepet's statement) had made their escape. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 341-42 ; 
Appendix, No. VIIL (Enclosure iii.). 

^ A Chevalier de Nangis had commanded a vessel in the fleet which escorted Prince 
Charles's father to Scotland in 1708. Cf. my Chevalier de St George, pp. 130, 144. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 47 

no Money, I shall take care to Subsist him till I hear from you. I have 
the Honour to be with particular Respect, Sir, 

Your most obedient and Most humble Servant 



/n/.Jh McTuOAU 



Inverness 4th August 1746. 
Endorsed : — A. 5th. 



XXXVII. 

Major Belford to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Edinburgh August 4th 1746. 
My Lord, 

I take the Liberty to Acquaint your Lordship that I have 
contracted for the Fivety Carts, which will be finished by the Beginning 
of Sept, and as its Necessary that a Place in the Castle, if to be had, 
should be provided in Order to keep them from the Weather, I Beg 
your Lordship will be pleased to Inclose a Line to me Directing the 
Store keeper of the said Castle to provide the same and to follow such 
Orders as I shall give him for the Preservation of his Majestys Stores, 
which are now lying exposed to the Open Air in a most Scandelous 
manner. 

I am, my Lord 
Your Lordships Most Obedt and most humble Servt. 

WM. BELFORD. 

P.S. — If there shou'd be no Convenient Storehouse your Lordship 
will if you think proper Order a Shed to be Built According to my 
Directions. 

Endorsed : — A. 9th. 

^ Fcilden MSS. 



48 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

XXXVIII. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Cunningham to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I have the Honour of your Lordships of the 26 of July, 
and return your Lordship infinite thanks for having granted all my 
Requests. 

This day there is an appearance of our Sailing ; the Wind is fair 
but very Moderate. I have been oblig'd to leave 40 good men behind 
us with 2 Sergeants with orders to be sent after us as soon as they 
recover. I could not gett men from the Additional companys in their 
places, haveing taken 73 from them before ; the rest were rather too 
young for the fatigues of a Campaign.^ 

I beg leave to recommend my Self to your Lordships remembrance, 
and to assure you that I am with the most Sincere attachment 

My Lord 
Your Lordships Much obliged, devoted Humble Servant. 

DAV. CUNYNGHAME. 

Edr August 4th 1746. 

XXXIX. 

Captain Hamilton to the Lord Justice-Clerk.^ 

Forfar 4th August 1746. 
My Lord, 

Sometime ago I wrote your Lordship an account of an order 
I had from the Lords of Session to give an answer to a Complaint laid 
before them by Thos Ogilvie of Coul.^ At the time I received this order 
Mr Bruce the Judge Advocat was then here, who advised me to take no 
further notice of it nor sending of it to Your Lordship, a copy of which 

1 Feilden MSS. 

2 Wolfe's, Sempill's, and Pulteney's regiments were ordered to Flanders when the Duke 
of Cumberland left Scotland in July. They had been expected to sail on August 3. Cf, Nos, 
X., XXIX., supra. 

■■^Feilden MSS. 

* On this matter, cf. Sir Everard Fawkener's letter of July 31, No. X., supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 49 

I then did. Since then I am informed that the Lords have issued out a 
warrant to apprehend my person for contempt to their Court. If any 
mistake of this sort has happened it must be owing to the advice Mr 
Bruce gave me and not out of any intention of me to disregard their 
Lordships orders, to which I shall always pay the Strictest obedience 
and deferrence. As for my part I am a perfect Stranger to the Laws of 
this Country, and therefore the whole must be imputed to my ignorance 
and my then Confinement to my Command, I beg your LoP may do 
me Justice on this occasion, which shall always be acknowledged most 
thankfully by 

Your Lordship's 

Most obedient humble Servant 

(Sign'd) CHA. HAMILTON. 

Follows the Answer. 

Edinbr gth August 1746. 

Sir, 

I have yours of the 4th before me and duly received your 
former letter, which I gave to Sir Everard Fawkener the moment I 
received it, as he undertook to write the answer ; for it did not come 
in such time as you could received from me an answer or advice from 
proper persons for regulating your Conduct with respect to the order 
of the Court, as the Sessions were then so near an end. Everybody 
knows that an answer ought to have been given to an order of Court, 
were it no more than desiring a further time to put in an answer, which 
wou'd not I beleive been refused. Your being personally present was 
not desired nor necessary. But that is now over and a warrant in course 
was issued, as you have heard, untill you find baill. That warrant has 
hitherto by the Interposition of your friends been delayed to be executed 
that you might have time to find bail, which to be sure you shou'd do. 
The Shirriff is directed to take the bail and I have reason to beleive 
that he will be to you as easy as possible, 

I am perswaded your not giving obedience to the first order of the 
Court has proceeded purely from a mistake, and I am apt to beleive 
that any thing laid to your Charge is either not true or must have at 
first proceeded from your Zeal for His Majesty's Service, And therefore 
I heartily wish all these matters were adjusted before next Sessions in 



50 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

November. And as I have had the Honour of a letter from the Earl of 
Albemarle on that subject, I can assure you that I shall contribute all 
I can towards it ; as I know you are acquainted with Pourie, who gave 
me a good Character of your good Sense, I have wrote to him to exert 
himself to settle everything in the best way he can for you. And I am 
perswaded he will have proper influence on all Concern'd. And if any 
difficultys occurr I beg to be acquainted. I am sure we all wish the 
same thing. That the Rebels be properly punished and Rebellion in 
time coming effectually prevented. I hope we shall hereafter also agree 
in the Means, And nothing seems more effectual to support and 
Strengthen His Majesty's Government than the preserving a perfect 
Harmony betwixt the Military and Civil power, which I can assure you 
is agreeable to His Royal Highness's directions before he left this part 
of the United Kingdom, and to the Sentiments of the Earl of Albemarle, 
under whose Command this Country must be happy. I am 
Sir 

Your most obedient humble Servant 
(Signd) 




Captain Charles Hamilton, Forfar. 

XL. 
Captain Monro of Culcairn to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

Upon receipt of your LoPs of the 25th Jully I did on the 
30th Jully (whenever I got in My out Commands) March from this 
Countray for Caithness, and Came that day To Garve [?], and next day 
to Newtown and Alness, and that night I got your LoPs oyr orders (by 
Earle Lowdone) of the 29th past To return here^ again, qch accordingly 
I did on the ist Instant, and Came that night to Dallninilearach, and 
on the 2d Inst, here ; and that night Capt George McKay came also 
here from Knoidart and Joynd us. 

When I cam here on Saturday I sent for the three prin^l Heritors 
in this Countrey who were not in the Rebellion, viz Keneth McKenzie 
1 Feilden MSS. ^ Loch Broom. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 5 1 

of Dundonald, Murdoch McKenzie of Achilty, and Alexr McKenzie of 
Ballone ; and talked to them fully about the Pretenders Son's Comeing 
to this Countrey, or their Harbeouring any of the Rebells ; and this 
day I got their answer, a Copy qrof is here Inclosed ; the Earle of 
Cromertie having a great pairt of this parish his property, or Some 
Way or oyr holding of him, had Influence on the people, and even on 
the Relations of Dundonald and Ballone, ffor a Broyr, and Uncle, and 
a Cousin Germane of Dundonald were in the Rebellion, as two Broyrs 
of Ballons were, wt Seuerall oyrs here and in Assint of the Earls 
ffriends ; and I find that there are Seueralls in this Countrey and Assint 
who have not deliuered their arms, tho' in the Rebellion ; and I believe, 
tho' there were Seueralls in the parish of Gairloch in the Rebellion, yet 
none of them deliuered there arms yet, and I hear the Same also about 
the people of Aplcross. 

I this day detachd ffour detachments of One officer, one Sergt, one 
Corporall and 24 privat Men Each, and have herewt Sent a Copy of the 
orders I gave to Each of these officers. I also detachd 2 Sergts Com- 
mands to oyr places in the Hills, not named in these orders given the 
officers, whose pairties are on the Coast from Loch Turaden To the 
point of Assint ; and the pairty from Keanlochowe to Lochcarron keeps 
in Aplecross and Kissern from the Incountrey or Mainland. 

I also Wrote To Commodore Smith, But doth not know where to 
find him, or where the Horse shoe harbour is, and Sent my Letter wt 
the Pairty goes to Lochcarron etc. 

He from tyme to tyme acquaint your LoP when anything Extra- 
ordinary happens here. Capt McKay who came from Knoidart, by 
Glenelg, Kintaili, Lochcarron and Keanlochowe hither, heard no Word 
of the Pretenders Sons Comeing this Way, But heard he Was in Morror, 
or Arissaig and thereabouts ; ^ He do all I Can to obey the orders I 
received Concerning him etc. and I am 

My Lord, 
Your LoPs most Humble, and most obedient Servant 




Kirktown of Lochbroom 4th August 1746. 

1 On the date of this letter Prince Charles was in Chisholm's country about Strathglass. 
He was then travelling northward towards Poolewe, but was well to the east of Captain 
Mackay's line of march. C/". Mr. Blaikie's map in his Itinerary. 



52 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

P.S. — Since Wryting what is aboue I hadd a Letter from Capt 
Aiskew of the Serpent, from Lochkenard in Coigach, qrin he tells me 
that Commodore Smith, who is at Horse shoe harbour, near to Dunstaf- 
nage in Mull, had the same orders of the 28th past from your LoP. as I 
had by the Earle of Lowdone, from yrs of the 2gth past, about the Pre- 
tenders Son etc. and had Sent the Serpent, the Baltimore, and Tryall 
Sloops to this Lough,^ and this makes me send an aditionall pairty to 
Coigach and Assint ; and Will send My Letter to Commodore Smith by 
the Serpent. 
To The Right Honble 

The Earle of Albemarle, Lt. Generall of 

His Majesties fforcess, Collonell of the 

Second Regiment of Guards, and Commander 

in Chief of his Majesties fforces in Scotland ; 

At ffort Augustus. 

Endorsed : — A. 8th. 

{Enclosure I.) 

Kenneth, Murdoch, and Alexander Mackenzie to Captain 

Monro. 

Kirktown of Lochbroom 4th August 1746. 
Sir, 

In regaurd it hath been reported that the Pretenders Son 
Came To the Bounds of this parish of Lochbroom ; We therefor out of 
Duty to the Gouernment, and for our own Credit and Interest, do hereby 
Declare that Neither we nor any of our people did euer know nor hear 
that he Was in this parish, nay W^e are fully Convinced for our pairt, 
that he never came to the Bounds ; nor did any of the Rebells to our 
knowledge Sculk or Stay Any tyme in this parish Since His Royall 
Highness's Proclamation was publictly Intimated the last Sabath of 
May, but William Culcoys Broyr, who Some tyme Skulked in the pairts 
of Auch and Coigach in Company wt Colin Roy McKenzie. It is 
likeways reported that Mr Alexr McLeod, Son to Mr John McLeod, 
Advocate, Was last Week in a Remott hill in the March twixt this and 

1 Cf. Commodore Smith's letter (Enclosure) of August 7, No. LI., supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 53 

the parish of Gairloch, called Binchaskan, but upon the fforces Comeing 
to the Countrey It is thought they left the Bounds. 
We are wt regaurd, 
Sir, 
Your most obedient Humble Servts 

(Sic Subscribitur) 

KEN. Mckenzie, Murdoch mckenzie, 
ALEXR Mckenzie. 



(Enclosure II.) 

An Order 

By Capt George Munro, Comanding a Detachment of His Majesties 
Troups in Lockbroom etc. 

Sir, 

In obedience To the orders I received from His Royall 
Highness the Duke of Cumberland, by the Earle of Lowdoun, of the 
13th of Jully last, and To the Subsequent orders I received from the 
Earle of Albemarle (who Commands in his Royall Highness's absense), 
by the Earle of Lowdone of the 2gth of Jully last, you are To March 
the Detachment of the S^ Troups now under your Command to the 
places betwixt this and the point of Assint, or Rowston [?] , and there 
Search for and Aprehend the person of the Pretender to His Majesties 
Crown his Eldest Son, and Ewery other person or persons who Were 
Conwened in the Late Unnaturall Rebellion, and bring them hither, 
and To Burn the Houses, and Dryve away the Catle, of Ewery one of 
Such as Were in the S** Rebellion, and haue not accepted of His Royall 
Highnesss Mercy and Clemency by deliuering up their arms, etc. And 
you'l, (prior to this last part of Burning the Houses and dryving away 
the Catle) use all your Indeavours, To get the best Accounts you Can 
of the S^ Pretenders Son, and pursue and take him, and all Such as go 
wth, or Harbour him, or Were officers in the S^ Rebellion ; and opose 
any force or hindrance May be made you in the Execution hereof by 
force ; and you are Dureing your stay and Search there To send me 
here Euery day, or Euery two days at farthest, Reports of what you do, 



54 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

and what Success youl haue ; ffor the doing of all which this Shall be 
your Warrant. By these, at the Kirktown of Lochbroom the 4th of 
August 1746 year. 

To Independent Company of Capt Monros 

The oyr 3 orders of this Kind are, To the places 
twixt the Litle st[r]ath of Lochbroom, by Gairlock 
to Loch Turaden ; and to the places Twixt this, 
Keanlochow and Strathbran ; and to the places 
twixt Keanlochow and Lochcarron. 



XLI. 

DuGALD Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

In return to a Letter I rece^ last night from Mr Roper by 
Your directions, I am to acquaint Your Lordship I have done all in my 
power to expedite these Barracks going on at Fortwilliam. The 
Timber and other Matterials arrived there some days ago. I hope 
Still they will be able to compleat the Work in the time I proposed. 
There shall be nothing left undone I can contribute to the expedition of 
the Work. And as Soon as I have finished at Stirling Castle, shall 
return to Fortwilliam. 

I came here to Finish some things undone in my Report etc. of the 
New Fort w^h is proposed by H.R.H. the Duke to be done at this 
place, which when I have done shall proceed to Sterling, 

I am, My Lord 

Your Lordships most Obedt 
most humble Servant 

DUG. CAMPBELL. 
Inverness 5th August 1746. 
Endorsed : — A. 6th. 

1 Feilden MSS. 



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XLII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Edenburgh 5 Aug 1746. 
My Lord, 

On Saturday last I had the Honour of your LoPs Letter of the 
27 July. When Alexander Macdonald of Kingsborrough was delivered 
Prisoner into the Castle of Edenburgh,^ S"" Everard Fawkener did not 
mention to me what Evidence there was against him, and I have ther- 
for written to him to know what other Evidence he has, besides Mrs 
Flora Mcdonald,^ mentioned in your LoPs Letter of the first instant, 
which I had the Honour to receive this day at noon. 

Before that Letter came to hand, I had accounts from Brigadier 
Mordaunt that the Reports we had of the Pretenders Son's haveing 
gone South were not true, and that therfore your LoP did not think 
it necessary that the Embargo laid on Shiping on this Coast should be 
any longer continued ; and thereupon I immediately ordered it to be 
taken off; and I can assure your LoP that the Merchants here are 
mighty Sensible of your LoPs goodness to them, and think themselves 
Extreamly happy that the Army is under the Command of one, who 
is equally Carefull of the Service of the Crown, and of the Interest of 
the Countrey ; and there is no doubt that the interests of both are 
Inseparable. 

I have the Honour to be with the greatest Respect, 
My Lord, 

Your LoPs 
Most Obedient and most humble Servant 

AND FLETCHER. 
Earl of Albemarle. 

Endorsed : — A. 12th. 

1 Feilden MSS. 

2 The Prince and Flora Macdonald upon their arrival in Skye were entertained that 
night (June 29) by Kingsburgh at his house. An amusing account of the visit is in The Lyon, 
vol. i., pp. 117 et seq. Very shortly after Kingsburgh was made prisoner. He was put in 
irons at Fort Augustus, and was thereafter conveyed to Edinburgh by a party of Kingston's 
horse, and was committed to the Castle on August 2. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 341 ; 
cf. The Lyon, vol. i., p. 126. 

•^ Flora Macdonald parted from the Prince at Portree on July i, and shortly after was 
made prisoner and carried on board the Furnace. — The Lyon, vol. i., p. 303. 



56 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 



XLIII. 

Magistrates of Aberdeen to the Earl of Albemarle,^ 

My Lord, 

Two days agoe, we wrote your Lordship ^ of a very Attrocious 
Riot that happend here the first of this month by some of the Troops 
quartred here, and sent a Copy of the Precognition, so far as we had 
then proceeded. Since that time, some more witnesses have been 
brought before us, who have given farther Evidence in that affair. We 
judged it our Duty to transmitt a Copy thereof to your LoP with a 
Memoriall of what appears to us at this present Conjuncture, and must 
beg your LoPs Attention thereto : 

Its matter of great Grief and Regrete to us that the friends of the 
Government shou'd do any irregular thing, And now when we were 
Enjoying Peace and Tranquillity, an Unexpected Interruption should 
happen thro' the folly of those that came for our Deliverance, Severalls 
of our Inhabitants are hurt and wounded by the Stones that were 
thrown. 

And what Surprises us very much is, that after all this Insult, the 
principall officers are full of Resentment against us and the persons who 
are to pursue for the Riot and Reparation of their Dammages. They 
do not hesitate to tell. That we are yet under military Power, and that 
they are not lyable to the Civil Government. 

If that were the Case, There would have been no Occasion for His 
Majesty and the Privy Councill to have appointed Magistrates, But we 
hope so long as your Lordship has the chief Command, you will protect 
us in our laws, Libertys and Propertys. An Estimate being now made 
of the reall Damnages, The same Amounts to upwards of ^^'iso Str. 
besides Costs. We begg you'll have the Goodness to forgive this 

1 Feilden MSS. 2 Supra, No, XXVH. 



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57 



repeated Trouble, and We have the Honour to be with perfect 
Truth 

My Lord 

Your Lordships most faithfull and 

most obedient humble Servants 



J^d 



'd/^i^. 





) 







Aberdeen 5 August 1746. 
Endorsed : — A. gth. 



XLIV. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Strontian Augt 5th 1746. 

My Lord, 

In obedience to your Lordships orders I propose to send the 
prisoners immediately to Fort William on their way to Fort Augustus, 
And as our people are immediately to be disbanded in consequence 
of His Royal Highnesss orders,^ I hope Your Lordship will give orders 
that the prisoners be escorted by a party of the military from Fort 
William to Fort Augustus. 

I have no evidence of any consequence against any of them ; but as 
they are all from the same country I imagin they will be sufficient 
evidence against one another, and I am sure none of them will deny 
their having been in Rebellion.^ I send two rebell officers prisoners, 

1 Feilden MSS. 

^On August 17 General Campbell and the Argyllshire militia returned to Inverary to 
disband. 

' A list of them is enclosed in Lord Albemarle's letter of August 8, infra, No. LVI. 

H 



58 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

besides what I mentiond to Your Lordship before, one is a McDonald, 
the other Stuart ; the first surrendered himself and endeavoured to be of 
service to us in Errasaig, tho his attempt did not succeed. The other 
delivered his arms some time ago to the General as a private man, but 
upon my being informed that he acted as Q^Master and PayMaster 
to Ardshiels regiment I apprehended him. He was remarkably active in 
raising men for the pretenders service. I did not know of Capt Scots 
being sent to Appin till Yesterday, otherways I should have sent him all 
the intiligence I had of the rebell officers in that country. However I 
believe it would have been of little service, for I am informd that they got 
notice of his coming the day before his arrival. As we must go thro 
Appin in our way home I have still some hopes of catching Ardshiel. 

I am, my Lord 
Your Lordships most obedient humble Servant 




■y^^ 



Endorsed : — A. 7th. 

XLV. 

Captain Mackay to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I came here Saturday last ^ haveing been a day longer on my 

March than I intended, ocasiened by severe Raines and the Rivers 

being high. I did all in my power to gett intelligence of the Pretenders 

Son or of any of the Rebells that are lurkeing, but gott none. Captain 

Munro of Culkcairn writes your LoP of the measures taken here so I 

need trouble your LoP. with no further, but that I have the honoure to 

be with the greatest respect and Esteem, 

My Lord 

Your LoPs. Most Obedient Most H^e Sert 

GEO. MACKAY. 
Loch Broom 5 Augt 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. 8th. 

^ Feilden MSS, ^ C/. Monro's letter of August 4, No. XL., sj^/>m. 



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XLVI. 

Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness 6th August 1746. 
My Lord, 

The Regiments being Ordered to be in a readiness to take 
the Field in a days warning, to which end the Officers must keep their 
Horses, and Camp necessaries will be got from London ; I am desired 
by the Officers to beg that Your Lordship will be Pleased to give direc- 
tions that they may be supplyed with Forage, for if they are to depend 
upon what Forage they can buy in the Country, most of their Horses 
will Perish. 

I am with great Respect 
My Lord 

Your Lordships 
Most humble and most obedient Servant 

WILL. BLAKENEY. 
Rt Honble the Earl of Albemarle. 
Endorsed : — A. 8th. 



XLVII. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Jackson to Major Roper.^ 

Dear Roper, 

I forgot when I wrote to you t'other day^ concerning the 
windows of this infamous town to desire you to ask My Lord's permis- 
sion for me to send recruiters to England. 

We^ want 141 men, who I fear will not be got too soon, and there- 

1 Feilden MSS. 2 ma, 

^ No. XXV., supra. * Fleming's regiment. 



6o THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

fore desire, if his "Lordship thinks fit, to send away the parties as soon 
as I can. I am Ever 

Yours 

GEO JACKSON. 
Augst the 6th 1746. 
Aberdeen. 

On His Majesty's service. 
To Major Roper Secretary and Aid de Camp 
to the Earl of Albemarle 
Fort Augustus or elsewhere. 
Endorsed : — A. gth. 

XLVIII. 

The Earl of Ancram to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I punctually obey'd your Lordships Commands. The Parties 
out in search of the Pretenders Son were as your Lordship order'd called 
in, excepting Captain Sutherlands Command which went to Ruthven. 
I forwarded the March Rout to Major Mackinzie, but he can not march 
before friday morning; there were a great many small partys of Lord 
Loudon's Regiment dispersed about the Country for apprehending 
Rebels, and they can not all join before thursday evening. 

In obedience to your Lordships orders I shall enquire into the 
Complaint of the Dragoons against Major Chabane,^ for which purpose 
I sett out immediately for Montrose, and shall also enquire into the 
Conduct of Captain Hamilton, and make my report to your Lordship. 

Two days after the Boats were allow'd to go out of Harbour,^ one 
from Peterhead about three miles from that town carried off some 
Rebels. I have not yet been able to learn who it was nor how many 
there was of them. I have. My Lord, recall'd the Boats to the places 
of rendezvous at first order'd, till I have your Lordships Commands 
what to do with them ; the Boat-men (as they always say) pretend that 

1 Feilden MSS. 2 c/. No. LXXVH., infra. 

^I.e., the embargo was removed. According to the Scots Magazine (vol. viii., p. 392) it 
was taken off after August 15. From Lord Ancram's letter that appears to be incorrect. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 6 1 

their Boat was carry'd off by force ; they are prisoners till your Lord- 
ships pleasure is known to me. Monday last we catched one Lawrence 
Leith, a Rebel Captain, who i am told did great mischief during the 
Rebellion and was particularly active in raising men for the Pretender. 
I send under Cover to Major Roper a return of Grazing places 
of the Four Regiments of Dragoons^ that I had on the Coast, and 
Shall, My Lord, enquire where Coll. Naizon's is Grazed and acquaint 
your Lordship with it. I shall be able to find villages or towns very 
near to the Grass, which I shall set about as soon as I have your Lord- 
ships orders to move. I am with the greatest Respect 
My Lord 

Your Lordships 

Most obedient and most humble Servant 

ANCRAM. 
Endorsed : — Aberdeen Augst 6th 1746. 
A. 9th. 

XLIX. 
The Earl of Ancram to Major Roper.^ 

Aberdeen August 6th 1746. 

Sir, 

Inclosed is a Return for my Lord of the Grass quarters of the 
four Regiments of Dragoons that were under my Command ; as Colonel 
Naizon's Regimt was not, I do not know where their Horses are to 
Graze, but shall make it my business to find it out and send it to you. 

A party of Lord Loudon's Regiment went on monday night ^ to 
a House upon information that some Rebel Officers were there ; the 
Master refused to allow them to Search, Swearing that there neither was 
Arms nor Rebels there ; they insisted on Searching, found some firelocks, 
Durks and Pistols and a Rebel Captain Lawrence Leith ; two others 
made their escape narrowly ; the Party took the Master of the House 
(also call'd Leith) prisoner, and next morning the Brother of the Master 

^They were, St. George's, Cobham's, Lord Mark Kerr's, and Hamilton's regiments. 
'^ Feilden MSS. '^ August 4. 



62 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

of the House came and insulted the Party by words, and took, as they 
Call it here, instruments against the officer, upon which, he being of the 
same stamp with the rest, the Officer also confined him. I beg to have 
my Lord Albemarles Commands relating to them. 

Finding that by letters I could not come to the truth of the Com- 
plaint made by the Dragoons against Major Chabane I set out immedi- 
ately for Montrose, where Cap" Hamilton is also to meet me. I shall 
make a Report to My Lord ; as Soon as The Dragoons have My Lord's 
orders to go to their Horses I shall go round the Grass quarters and fix, 
with My Lords leave, on the nearest and best villages and towns to 
Quarter the Men. 

I am, Sir 

Your obedient Humble Servant 

ANCRAM. 

The express that arrived yesterday from Fort-Augustus was so 
tier'd that I delay'd writing on his account till now. I beg my Compli- 
ments to my good friend Mr Mason. 

Endorsed : — A. gth. 

L. 

Major Rufane to Major Roper.^ 

Fort William August ye 6th 1746. 
Sir, 

Before I had Receiv'd Lord Albemarle's Commands for it, I 
had assured Mr Campbell the Engineer when he was here, that I should 
readily give all the assistance in my power to forward the Works, which 
I shall not fail to do. You will please to acquaint his Lordship that Mr 
Johnson is not willing to come into any Agreement for providing the 
Necessary Utensils for the Barracks otherwise than by a Contract with 
the board of Ordonance. I took upon me to propose the thing likewise 
to Mr Douglass, who declines it. 

With this you receive the Weekly Return of Brig^r Houghton's 
Regiment. I am, Sir 

Your most obedient Servant 

WM. RUFANE. 

1 Feilden MSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 63 

P.S. — It is but within three or four days that I heard of y being 
wth h^ Albemarle. Give me leave as an Old Acquaintance, My Dear 
Sir, to Congratulate You upon it, and to wish you all future Success. If 
Mr Mason is not gone from you, I beg my Compliments to him. 

Endorsed : — A. loth. 



LI. 

Commodore Smith to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I have the Honour of your Lordships Letter of the 3d 
inclosing a Letter from Mr Moody to Sir Everard Fawkener, and the 
disposition designed to be Made of the Troops. 

As to Mr Moodys information, I believe He takes two twenty Gun 
Ships of Ours (which I sent to the Orkneys in quest of a privatier I had 
Inteligence of) to be French privatiers, as He takes no notice of any 
Ships of Ours being on the Coast. The Glascow is Saild for Inverness 
and I shall send the Hound and Furnace to Cromerty to take in Any 
prissoners your Lordship May have to Send to London and Convoy 
Transports to Leith. They are to take with them from thence all the 
Rebel prisoners that are on this side the Coast. After the Middle of 
this Month the Forty Gun ships and such Ships and Sloops as must Go 
Home to be repaired and Stored will Leave this Side of the Coast, and 
Cruize about the Orkneys till the begining of September, at which 
time those designed to go to England will be forwarded to Cromerty to 
receive Your Lordships Commands, or those of the Commanding Officers 
if your Lordship Should be Gon for Sterling. When the Ships designed 
to be sent home are Gon there will remain only Eight for the Service of 
Scotland, the Disposition of Which I send you Inclosed. As I cant tell 
absolutely where I shall be found for this three Weeks or Month to 
Come, I desire the favour Your Lordship will Open all Letters directed 
to Me On His Majestys Service and order Copys of the Same to be 
taken, and send one to Fort William, and the other to Kirkwall in the 
Orkneys, and please to forward all private Letters to The Latter. I 

1 Feilden MSS, 



64 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

am very uneasy at not being Able to Get out of this place by contrary 
Winds. If Lieutenant Belford is not with your Lordship I desire the 
favour You will frank and forward the inclosed to Him. 
I am, My Lord, with the Greatest respect 

Your Lordships Most obedient Servant 

THOMAS SMITH. 
Eltham in Kerrera or Horseshoe. 

August ye 7th 1746. 

I desire your Lordship will when You Leave Fort Augustus Give 
My Complements to Lord Lowden and desire Him to open all Letters 
on His Majesty s Service and take Copys of them and send one to Fort 
William and another to Kirkwall. 

Endorsed: — A. nth. 



(Enclosure.) 

An Account of the Dispotion of His Majestie's Ships and Vessels 
to continue on this Station under my Command.^ 



About the Stack and Skerries, Orkneys 
and the Murray Frith. 



Loo, ^ 

Bridgewater ^ 

Scarborough j 

Tryton ^ 

Tryal | ^^ I On the N W Coast. 

Raven J ^ J 

Baltimore ^ Between Cromertie and Leith as Convoys, to go to 
Serpent J Sheerness as other Sloops arrrive. 

^ Since May there had been a considerable naval force on the western coast. The 
Greyhound arrived from Ireland towards the end of April, and on May 3, in company with the 
Baltimore and Terror, engaged in Lochnanuagh the French vessels which landed the Loch 
Arkaig treasure. On May 4 the English squadron was reinforced by the Raven, and on the 
13th by the Glasgow, Scarborough, Trial and Happy yanet. The Furnace was also on the 
coast. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 238, 239. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 65 

LII. 

Brigadier Mordaunt to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Perth August 7th. 
My Lord, 

I had this morning an order from Lord Justice Clerk to 
escort the prisoners immediately for Carlile.^ Saturday Morning I 
sent a party of 200 Men With 'em, and am sorry Skelton's Regiment 
for Want of their Cloathing must march so ragged. 

The French Lieutt. and afterwards Rebel Captain, by name 
Crosbie, at last proves a Deserter of Skelton's ; I therefore keep him 
here for your Lordships farther orders. Perhaps there may not be 
evidence sufficient in the Civil way.^ 

By pretty good intelligence, I find Lord Ogilvie is still lurking in 
these parts. 

I rejoice to find by Masterton you are coming Southward ; I rejoice 
both for your Sake and my own after a three months want [?] of Pringle's * 
physick. I had Doctor Sinclair from Edinburgh, who has done me no 
good, but by his account has a little frighten'd the Noble Brigadier. I 
comfort myself tho' with thinking the Scotch know as little of our 
insides as we do from their outsides, and that Content and England 
will set me up again. I am 

My Lord 

Your most faithfuU Obed* Serv^ 

J. MORDAUNT. 

1 Feilden MSS. 

^The trial of the rebel prisoners opened at Carlisle on August 12. 

^ " On the igth of September, Captain Crosby, who deserted from the British army in 
Flanders, and came to Scotland with the French troops [in November, 1745], was hanged, and 
two other deserters shot, at Perth. The hangman of Perth absconded on this occasion ; and 
one called from Stirling died on the road. Thereupon a prisoner brought out of jail offici- 
ated." — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 445. 

* ? Sir John Pringle, who went through the campaign in Scotland with the Duke of 
Cumberland. His book. Observations on the Diseases of the Army (Lond., 1752), contains some 
curious information relating to the medical aspect of the campaign. 

I 



66 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

By the last Return of my own Regiment, I find we already Want 
i8o Men, that we have not got an officer recruiting, and that we can 
have no hopes of Granby's Recruits, as Cholmondeley's is upon the 
Spot. It will be a vast expence for Sub"^ to recruit for the North of 
Scotland, and if you will consent to Captain Slopers going, his Father 
lives by Newbury, a good recruiting town, and he will be within reach 
of me in the Country, Where I can get Men. We have now only five 
officers order'd to recruit, and whatever men you think proper to send, 
if your Lordship will order 'em soon, I may give 'em a Cast to the 
South. 

Endorsed : — A. gth. 

LIII. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Strontian August 7th. 
2 o'clock afternoon. 
My Lord, 

I this moment have the honour of Your Lordship's Letter 
and shall endeavour to put your orders in execution, tho I am sure 
it will be with the utmost difficulty that I shall be able to reach Glen- 
dissary by the appointed time,^ for it will be impossible for us to march 
in the night as the roads are scarce passable and the nights so dark. I 
must deffer sending the prisoners to your Lordship till I return to this 
place. 

I am Your Lordships 

most obedt humble Servant 

JOHN CAMPBELL. 

To The right Honble The Earl of Albemarle commander in chief of 
his majesties forces in N. Brittain at Fort Augustus. 

On His Majesties Service from Lt. Col. Campbell. 

1 Feilden MSS. 

^ He had been sent thither in consequence of information that the Prince was in the 
district. Cf. No. XXX., supra. 



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LIV. 

Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle,^ 

Inverness 7th August 1746. 
My Lord, 

Inclosed are the Answers made by Lieutenant Dudesert,^ 

who has Signed his Parole of Honour. 

The Man of War is not yet arrived, and I am Informed that most of 
the Provisions on board the Navy Store Ship are very much damaged, 
so that I humbly desire we may not touch them till we have the Purser 
and Master of the Man of War to be present when they are examined, 
for a certain sort of People are apt to charge others with faults to 
excuse themselves. 

The OfBcers are very impatient to know how they are to be supplyed 
with Forage for their Horses. 

Handasydes Regiment marched from hence the 5 Instant, Six 
Companies of the Royal Irish Marched this Morning, and the other 
four Companies are to march tomorrow, at which time the other two 
Regiments are to take up their Quarters in this Town.^ 

I apprehend that I shall find it Difficult to oblige the Magistrats to 
furnish the several Guards with Sufficient fire and Candle. 

I assure your Lordship that it was Mr Gardiner that gave charge 
of the Stores and Provisions here to Frigge the Merchant, and as Mr 
Dundas has Contracted to furnish those things, I am humbly of opinion 
that he, or somebody for him, should have the Naming of the Revenue 
Officer that is to take charge of them. I am with great Respect, My 
Lord, Your Lordship's Most humble and most obedient Servant 

WILL. BLAKENEY. 

P.S. — Inclosed is a Report of Cloathing etc. for the Army. 
Rt Honble the Earl of Albemarle. 

Endorsed : — A. gth. 

1 Feilde7t MSS. 

^ Unfortunately the document is lost. 

' Handasyde's regiment went into quarters at Elgin. Blakeney's and Batereau's regi- 
ments took up their quarters in Inverness. 



68 . THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

LV. 

Lord Sempill to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I am Honord with your Lord^p Letter and Commands of 
the 4th acquainting me I am by His Royall Highness the Duke Orderd 
to go to Aberdeen to take upon me the Command of the tuo Regts 
Designd for that Cantonement,^ which I shall doe to morow, in a Very 
bad state of Health.^ 

I shall make it my particolar care to Observe and put in Execution 
the Orders Conteand in Your Lordsps Letter, and all Other Orders I 
may Receve from time to time. I beg Leave to wish all Happiness to 
Your Lordsp and a good March. I am 
My Lord 

with Great Honour and truth 
Your Lordsp 
Most obedient and most feathfull Humble Servant 

SEMPILL. 

Inverness August 7th 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. 9th. 

LVI. 
The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.* 

Fort Augustus, Augst 8*^ 1746. 
My Lord, 

Having received no Letters from England since the Duke 
left this Place,^ and having acquainted His Royall Highness with the 

1 Feilden MSS. 

2 From the official list {infra, No. CLV.) Fleming's regiment appears to have been the 
only one quartered at Aberdeen. 

' He died at Aberdeen on November 25, 1746. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 550. 
"^S-P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 5. ^j^ly ig. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 69 

particulars I know of the Pretender's Son and my intention of marching 
from hence next Wednesday/ which I presume he will communicate to 
you with my reasons for going into Quarters ; I shall not trouble )'our 
Grace with a long Letter, only beg leave to enclose the Declaration of 
Capt O'Neille,^ two Letters that Gentleman begs may be sent to 
Dunkirk, and a List of Prisoners delivered by Major Gen^l Campbell to 
Commodore Smith. 

I am (with great respect) My Lord 

Your Grace's most Obedient Servant, 

ALBEMARLE. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

{Enclosure I.) 

List of Prisoners, Delivered to Commodore Smith by 
Major Genii Campbell, Augt 3d, 1746. 

1 , . . Ronald Clanronald, made Prisoner for Treasonable Practices in 

Visiting and assisting the Pretender's Son while on the Islands 
of Benbicula and South Uist. 

2 . . . Ronald McDonald, Bailie of Benbicula, made Prisoner for 

Treasonable Practices ; a Materiall Evidence against Clanronald, 
His Lady, Buisdale, The Bailie of Canna, and Hugh McDonald 
of Armadael, an Officer of the Skye Militia. 

3 . . . John M^Kinnon of Elgol in Skye, made Prisoner for having 

been an Officer in the Rebell Army ; a Materiall Evidence 
against The Laird of M^Kinnon.^ 

4 . . . Malcolm M^Leod of Teir in Rasa, made Prisoner for having 

been a Captain in the Rebell Army, and other Treasonable 
Practices ; an Evidence against The Laird of M^Kinnon.^ 

5 . . . Ronald M^Gachan, Son to Obeg in South Uist, made Prisoner 

for having assisted the Pretender's Son while in South Uist ; 

1 August 13. 2 c/. stipra, No. XXX. 

'■^ He had entertained the Prince, then passing as " Lewie Caw," at his house at Ellagol 
on July 4, 1746. He was made prisoner on July 11. — The Lyon, vol. i., p. 138 ; vol. ii., p. 253. 

* He had accompanied the Prince from July r-4, 1746, and having left him in Mackinnon's 
charge at Ellagol, was apprehended a few days later by John Macleod of Talisker. — The Lyon, 
vol. i., p. 144. 



70 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

an Evidence against Old Clanronald, The Bailie of Benbicula 
and Boisdale. 

6 . . . Donald M^Cleod of Gartrigill,^ made Prisoner for having been 

in Rebellion and Piloting the Pretender's Son from the Continent 
to the Western Isles. An Evidence against old Clanronald, 
McDonald of Buisdale, Aeneas McDonald The Banker, and the 
Laird of Barra.^ 

7 . . . Charles M^Gachen in Peninurin in South Uist, made Prisoner 

for levying men for the Pretender's Son, an Evidence against old 
Clanronald, Ronald M^Gachen Son to Obeg, The Bailie of Ben- 
bicula, McDonald of Buisdale, The Bailie of Canna, and Ronald 
McDonald of Garrifluch. 

8 . . . Francis McDonald, made Prisoner for having raised men in 

Ireland for the Pretender's Service, and for being an Officer with 
the Rebels. He was made Prisoner at Couchindier in Ireland 
for the same, but made his escape, and it is reported Fifty pounds 
was promised by those he escaped from for retaking him, for 
which reason, Query, it would not be right to send him thither 
to have him tried as there is no evidence here against him. 

9 . . . Lauchlan McVurych, made Prisoner for having been in Rebellion 

and assisting the Pretender's Son in his escape from the Con- 
tinent to South Uist, an Evidence against Lady Clanronald. 
10 & II . . . Angus M^Caula & John McDonald, two Boys, Servants 
to the Bailie of Benbicula, Evidences against their Master. 

12 . . . Duncan McReizig, made Prisoner for having been in Rebellion, 

and taken with his Arms. 

13 . . . Roderick McDonald, made Prisoner for having been in Rebellion 

and assisting the Young Pretender in escaping to the long Island, 
an Evidence against Clanronald. 

14 . . . John McLean, Cook to the Laird of Clanronald, made Prisoner 

for having been Cook to the Pretender's Son while on the long 
Island, but chiefly to be an Evidence against The Laird and Lady 
Clanronald. 

1 Gualtergill, on Loch Dunvegan, in Skye. 

2 Donald met the Prince at Borradale on April 21, 1746, and piloted him to the Long 
Island. His narrative is in The Lyon, vol. i., pp. 154 et seq. He was taken prisoner on July 
5, 1746, in Benbecula, by Allan Macdonald of Knock (ibid., vol. i., p. 178). 



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15 . . . John McDonald, Brother to the Bailie of Benbicula, made 

Prisoner only for an Evidence against some Persons in the long 
Island. 

16 . . . Duncan M^Rievre in Benbicula, made Prisoner for having 

rowed the Pretender's Son from South Uist to Skye. 

17 . . . Alexander McDonald of Garilgole in Benbicula, taken up only 

to be an Evidence against Lady Clanronald and some others in 
the long Island. 

18 . . . Francis Bower, a Papist Teacher of Children in Morer. 

ig . . . Alexander McDonald of Buisdale continued Prisoner by Cap* 
Scott for being aiding and assisting to the Pretender's Son, and 
visiting him while he was on South Uist.^ 
20 . . . John McRinnon, the old Laird, continued for being in the 
Rebellion ; He was attainted in the last Rebellion, and this also. 
He conducted the Pretender's Son from Skye to Morer and was 
otherwise assisting to him.^ 
Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Augt 8th 1746. 

{Enclosure II.) 
Declaration of Captain Felix O'Neil.^ 

Fort Augustus, August 7th 1746. 

Capt O'Neille Declares that after the Action at Colloden he was 
sent by the Pretender's Son to Inverness to order what People (belong- 
ing to him) who were then in the Town to retire, the Battle being lost ; 
he Directly passed thro' the Town and told as many as he could meet 
his orders ; he saw Lady Ogilvie, Old Lady Mcintosh and others at 
a Window, whom he did not give himself time to speak to, tho' they 
seemed Desirous of it ; from thence he Directly went towards Moy 
where the Pretender's Son Promised to meet him ; on the way he met 

^ Alexander Macdonald of Boisdale had been taken prisoner shortly before June 15, 
1746. — The Lyon, vol. i., p. 174. 

^ Mackinnon was taken prisoner shortly after leaving the Prince at Borradale on July 10, 
1746. — The Lyon, vol. ii., p. 253. 

^ His Journal is in The Lyon, vol. i., pp. 365 et seq. 



72 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Lord John Drummond, Major Kennedy and some other officers, who 
told him the Pretender's Son had taken the road towards the M^Pher- 
sons Country/ and sent a Quarter Master of Fitz James's and four 
Troopers to shew him the road ; he lay that night at one Fraziers near 
a factors of Lord Lovats, and the next morning ^ by Break of Day went 
to the said factors, where he found Lord Lovat, Cap* Shea, Cap* Bagott, 
and some other officers, Who told him the Pretenders Son had Desired 
them to Surrender, But had left a note with Lord Lovat Directing him 
to go to Fort Augustus, there to Pick up what people he could and make 
a Stand ; he got there about Eleven O'clock that Day and found 
nobody except five or six people, who told him the Pretenders Son was 
gone forwards towards Lochgary's House ; at a house a little above 
Fort Augustus he met the Pretender's Son's Cook and one of his foot 
men, and Sullivans Clark, who told him he would overtake him at 
Glengary's ; he went thither, and found Monsieur Mirabell a French 
Engineer,^ An Irish Physician, and a Priest ; they told him the Pre- 
tenders Son had left word for him to follow him to Scothouse of 
Knoidart ; from thence he went to Lochiels, where he lay that night ; 
the next morning^ he met old Lochiel, M' M^Lachlan, M' Maxwell and 
Lord Elcho, who accompanied him to Kinloch Moidart, where they met 
Eneas McDonald the Banker who brought him a note from the Preten- 
ders Son, Directing him to Joyn him at one Donald Roy McDonald in 
Aresaig, ^ which he did next day ® along with one Donald M^Leod who 

^ The Prince, after the battle of Culloden on April i6, crossed the river Nairn at the ford 
at Falie, and riding by Tordarroch, Aberarder, Faroline, Gortleg (where he met Lord Lovat) 
and Fort Augustus, reached Invergarry Castle early on the morning of April 17. That night 
he spent at Glenpean, and next day started on foot for Glen Morar. He remained in Morar on 
April 19, and walked to Borradale on the 20th. He remained there till April 26, when Donald 
Macleod piloted him to the Long Island. — Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 46. 

^ April 17. 

^ M. Mirabelle de Gordon had come to Scotland with Lord John Drummond. Cf. the 
Chevalier Johnstone's account of him in The Rising of 1745, p. 119. He was made prisoner 
early in May, 1746. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 238. 

4 April 18. 

^ This appears to add a detail as to the Prince's entertainment in Borradale from April 
20-26. Cf. Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 47. 

•^ April 19. But the real date must have been April 21, for that was the day on which 
Donald Macleod, who had been sent by ^neas Macdonald, reached the Prince. O'Neil in his 
Journal gives the inaccurate date April 29 as that of his joining the Prince. Cf. The Lyon, 
vol, i., p. 367. 



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served them as a Pilot afterwards, and is now a Prisoner on Board the 
Furnace ; there was with the Pretender's Son in Aresaig, Sullivan, John 
Hay, and one Allen McDonald a Priest, and now a Prisoner ; they staid 
there till the next day ^ about Six O'Clock in the Evening, when Sulli- 
van, the Pretender's Son and himself Embarked in an Open Boat for 
Stornway ; ^ the night proving bad, they were obliged to put into 
Rushnish in Long Island, where they staid some time ^ and made a 
second attempt for Stornway. But the weather still continuing bad, 
they were forced into Scalpa,* and went under the name of Sinclair, 
a Shipwrecked Merchant,^ Sullivan passed for his Father ; there they 
were five or six days, and sent Donil M^Leod their Pilot to Stornway 
to bargain for a ship to carry them to the Orkneys ; they travelled from 
Scalpa to the Lewis, which they crossed on foot twenty five miles to 
Stornway,^ where they found that M^Leod had Got Drunk and Discovered 
them,^ so that the People of Stornway were rising in arms, apprehending 
they had brought a number of men with them, which obliged them to 
Lie in a Moor all night two miles short of the town ; then they pro- 
posed going in their open Boat to the Orkneys, but the Sailors who 
were with them, having run such risques some nights before by the 
badness of the weather, would not venture it, upon which not knowing 
what to resolve, they embarked on board their Boat and went South- 
wards ; in their Passage they met two Enghsh men of war, which 

1 According to O'Neil's Journal {The Lyon, vol. i., p. 368) the Prince remained in Borra- 
dale " some days " before sailing. Donald Macleod, who arrived (with O'Neil ?) on April 21, 
had first to procure a boat, and the Prince's departure did not in fact take place till April 26. 

2 O'Neil's recollection of events was clearly hazy. In his Journal {The Lyon, vol. i., p. 
368) he says that the Prince, Colonel O'Sullivan and himself sailed " at eight at night ". 

' April 27-29. — Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 48. It is noticeable that O'Neil says nothing here 
of the boat being staved to pieces on a rock. Cf. The Lyon, vol. i., p. 368, and Bishop Forbes' 
note. 

* In the early morning of April 30. Cf. The Lyon, vol. i., p. 166. 

^ The Prince's motive in taking the name " Sinclair " is not, so far as I know, elsewhere 
explained. Donald Macleod {The Lyon, vol. i., p. 166) mentions the fact, but gives no 
reason. 

® They remained at Scalpa from May 1-4, and arrived at Kildun House in Arnish early 
on May 5. — The Lyon, vol. i., p. 166. It may be noticed that O'Neil in his Journal {The 
Lyon, vol. i., p. 369) declares that he was sent to Stornoway to look for a boat. 

' O'Neil makes the same accusation in his Journal, but cf. Bishop Forbes' note in The 
Lyon, vol. i., p. 369. 

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74 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

obliged them to put into an uninhabited Island, where they remained 
four days, having no provisions but some dried fish which they found 
on the rocks ; ^ they went from thence still Southwards, and were chased 
by a Sloop of War in amongst the rocks off the Harries, where they 
remained three hours till she was gone, when they ventured out and 
went to Benbicula, where they remained at a poor mans house three 
days ; ^ from thence (by this mans advice) ^ they went to Corridale, a 
Mountain in South Uist, where they remained near a Month in a 
Shieling of one M^Gachans,* and were subsisted by him and some of 
the people of the Country, During that time While they were there 
the Pretenders Son sent Capt O'Neille with a Second Son of Clan- 
ronalds,^ a Capt in Lord John Drummonds, to the Lewis to endeavour 
to get a ship in which Capt O'Neille was to go to France with a Letter 
to the King,^ and he was directed to give the King a distinct account of 
every thing that had happened from his arrival in Scotland till the day 
he left the Pretenders Son, and was recommended to the King as a 
Person who would give an impartial account of every thing ; he finding 
it impracticable to get a ship on account of the strict examination all 
Persons were obliged to undergo, returned towards Corridale, but was 
told on the way that the Pretenders Son had left that place on account 
of the Skye Militia being come into South Uist, and was gone to the 
Island of Fuya,'^ where he rejoyned him and staid there two days ; from 
thence they went to Loch Boisdale in South Uist ; in their passage 

^The island was Euirn or Iffurt, where they remained from May 6-9. O'Neil in his 
Journal gives their stay there as eight days. Cf. The Lyon, vol. i., p. 172. 

2 They landed on an island in Loch Uskavagh on May 11 and remained " at a poor grass- 
keeper's bothy or hut " until May 14. — Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 50. 

'" By the advice of a friend," says O'Neil in his Journal (The Lyon, vol. i., p. 370). 

* The name of Ronald Macgachan, the Prince's host, does not appear to be elsewhere 
mentioned {cf. Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 50, note 4, and supra, p. 69). O'Neil in his Journal 
correctly states that the Prince remained here twenty-two days, May 15 to June 5. 

^This would appear to be Donald Macdonald who was later taken prisoner, and whose 
statement is in Enclosure iii. of Lord Albemarle's letter of December i6,\infra. No. CLXXXV. 
Lord Albemarle calls him " Young Clanronald ". 

^O'Neil does not mention this incident in his Journal. On the contrary he says that 
"we" — clearly including himself — remained at Coradale for twenty-two days. Cf. The Lyon, 
vol. i., p. 370. 

■^The Prince sailed to Island Ouia on June 6 and remained there till June 9. — Blaikie, 
Itinerary, p. 51. 



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thither they met two English Men of War, whom they avoided by 
getting behind a rock, where they remained near two hours, and then 
proceeded on their voyage to Lochboisdale ; they staid their four or five 
days, but Cap* Scott landing within two Miles of them, obliged them to 
part with Sullivan, who they left there with the Boat, Cap^ O'Neille 
and the Pretenders Son going towards Corridale, where they were 
informed that General Campbell was at Berneray, and there were 
severall independent Companys coming into the Country in search of 
him, which determined them to go for Benbicula ; ^ on their way thither 
they met Miss Flora McDonald, to whom it was proposed to go along 
with the Pretenders Son to the Isle of Skye, which she at first refused, 
but on his offering to dress himself in a Woman's Habit and to pass 
for her Servant she consented, desiring them to remain on the North 
Side of Corridale, and she would send him word where to meet her ; 
their Guide ^ went with her to bring the message; they staid at the 
place fixt upon all the next day without hearing from her, which 
made them think she had deceived them ; ^ having no hopes of escap- 
ing, he was just going to send Cap' O'Neille to Gen'i Campbell 
to surrender himself,* when the Guide returned with a message 
from Miss Flora that she would meet him at the head of Rush- 
nish, where they went that night, but did not meet her, on which the 
Guide was sent for her, who brought her the next day about night fall, 
but hearing there were some Ships engaged off Barra, he was determined 

1 The Prince's movements after leaving Ouia on June 10 were as follows : June 10, to 
Rossinish by land, and remained there till June 12, when, alarmed by the appearance of the 
militia, they proceeded by boat to Coradale ; June 13, spent the night at Aikersideallach, 
having been forced to put in at Uishness Point by a storm ; June 14, sailed to Ciliestiella, 
having been again alarmed by the approach of the enemy; June 15, sailed for Loch Boisdale, 
hoping to get help from Alexander Macdonald of Boisdale, and remained in the neighbourhood 
of the Loch until June 21, when the Prince and O'Neil crossed the mountains and at a hut near 
Ormaclett, at midnight, met Flora Macdonald. — Blaikie, Itinerary, pp. 51, 52. 

2 Neil Maceachain. — Blaikie, ibid., p. 52. 

^ The Prince remained near Ormaclett on June 22, crossed the Loch to Ouia on the 23rd, 
proceeded to Benbecula on the 24th, and in imminent danger of capture, remained there till 
the 27th, when Flora Macdonald joined him. Crossing Loch Uskavagh that night, the Prince 
and Flora sailed for Skye late on the 28th, leaving O'Neil behind.— Blaikie, Itinerary, pp. 52, 53. 

* Of this astonishing fact O'Neil says not a word in his Journal {The Lyon, vol. i., p. 371). 
On the other hand, hemmed in as the Prince was by the militia, and seemingly disappointed in 
his hope of escaping to Skye, the necessity of surrendering may well have been mooted. 



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to stay till they heard what was the event ; after staying some time they 
had an account that Gen^' Campbell passed from North Uist to Benbi- 
cula, which obliged him to change his resolution ; they went from thence 
at midnight to a point of the Island nearer Skye, where they saw two 
or three small vessels who attended Genl' Campbell, and were obliged 
to hide themselves in the Heather. There they could not prevail upon 
Miss Flora to take Cap* O'Neille along with them, as he did not speak 
the language of the country and as he had (as she said) a Foreign air ; ^ 
upon which he was obliged to part with him, with a promise to joyn 
them as soon as the Boat which carried them would come back, which 
it did some days after, and brought a note from the Pretender's Son to 
Capt O'Neille desiring he would joyn him in the M^Kinnon Country, 
but he could not prevail on the Boat men to go back with him,^ as they 
had run some risques by having shot fired at them before they landed 
the Pretenders Son ; the next day he, O'Neille, was taken by Cap* 
McNeil a Capt of the independent Companys, in a Shelling near Rush- 
nish where he had waited for an opportunity to get over to Skye.^ 
Endorsed : — Rd i8. 

LVII. 

The Magistrates of Aberdeen to the Lord Justice-Clerk.* 

My Lord, 

We are Sorry we should be oblidged to give you such repeated 
trouble. The reason of the present is in relation to Andrew Walker and 
Walter Niccol, Merchants of this place, who were committed prisoners 

1 O'Neil in his Journal gives the more prosaic reason, that Flora had secured a pass 
" but for one servant". — The Lyon, vol. i., p. 373. 

^ O'Neil, however, declares in his Journal that he secured a boat " after innumerable 
difficulties," and returned to Raasa, where he was disappointed in his expectation of finding 
the Prince ; thence to Skye, and thence to North Uist, and so to Benbecula, where he was 
captured. 

^ In his Journal he specifically declares that he proceeded to Skye after his failure to find 
the Prince in Raasa. On the whole, the collation of O'Neil's two declarations leaves one with 
considerable doubt as to his veracity, a feeling which Bishop Forbes evidently shares. Cf., 
in particular, The Lyon, vol. i., p. 157. O'Neil, after his capture by Captain Macneil, was put 
on board the Furnace, Captain Fergusson, where, on his own statement, he was submitted 
to somewhat rigorous treatment. Cf. The Lyon, vol. i., p. 374. 

•» Feildcn MSS. 



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to the Main Guard on Wednesday night ^ last by order of Lord Ancrum, 
and where they still remain, for what crimes we know not. 

Your LoP will please be informed that immediately before His 
Royal Highness left this Town, beginning of April last, Mr Bruce, 
Judge Advocat for the Army, gave it in charge to the Governours of 
this Town to make enquiry anent all the Inhabitants who had been 
absent during H.R.H.'s stay here, and upon their return to give account 
of themselves where they had been, and in case there was no crime to 
lay to their charge To admit them to bail. And the said Walter Niccol 
and Andrew Walker having been absent for sometime before H.R.H. 
left this place, upon their return they were called before the Governours 
and Examined where they had been, And the said Walter Niccol gave 
for answer that he had been at Edinburgh about his lawfuU bussiness, 
and produced your LoP's pass for his returning home, And the said 
Andrew Walker gave for Answer that he had gone to Stonehaven about 
his lawfull bussiness, and from there to his fathers house in the Country, 
where he had remained till he returned to Aberdeen, and at the time of 
their return there being no Crimes laid to their Charge, they were both 
admitted to bail, each under the penalty of One hundred pounds sterling, 
and their above confessions was reported to Mr Bruce, Judge Advocat, 
then in the North, and since that time, Mr Bruce was at Aberdeen. Saw 
their Bailbonds, and was satisfyed with them. 

If since that time there has been any discovery of treasonable prac- 
tices or Crimes they have been guilty of -^ We shall be heartily sorry for 
it, But in Justice to them we thought ourselves oblidged to give the 
above detail of their Situation untill their present confinement, So that 
they may be proceeded against if found Criminal, or set at liberty as 
Your LoP shall see cause. We hope you'l have the goodness to forgive 
this trouble, and we have the honour to be with the utmost truth and 
regard 

My Lord 
Your LoPs most obedient and most faithfull Ser^s 

JAMES MORISON Provost. 
I WILLIAM MOWAT Baillie. 
^^" JALEXR COPLAND Baillie. 

[wiLLIAM GORDON Baillie. 

Abdn 8 Augt 1746. 

1 August 6. * C/. Enclosure in Lord Ancram's letter of August 14, infra, No. LXXXH. 



78 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Follows the Answer. 

Gentlemen, 

I received your letter of the 8th acquainting me of the Com- 
mittment by order of Lord Ancrum of two of your Merchants, Walker 
and Niccol, after they had been put under bail by the late Governours 
of Aberdeen pursuant to power given them by H.R.H. I'm exceeding 
sorry to hear so many Complaints from your Town of the Gentlemen in 
the Arm.y, But I am perswaded that Lord Ancrum has not made this 
Step without a very just cause, tho' I do not know what it is. And that 
upon enquiry the only fault will be found to be His Lordships omitting 
to put that respect upon you that I own I think is due to Magistrats of 
Your approv'd zeal and loyalty, of acquainting you of the Cause of com- 
mitting them, Notwithstanding the bail that they had before given to 
the Governours. I have written to Lord Ancram about it, And I doubt 
not that he will soon satisfy you in one shape or other. 

Follows the Letter to Lord Ancram. 

My Lord, 

I had a letter this morning from the Magistrats of Aberdeen 
concerning two Merchants of their Town, Andrew Walker and Walter 
Niccol, who have by Your LoP^ order been committed to the Main 
Guard and are still detained there without knowing any cause for such 
Committments. They say that pursuant to the General order given by 
H.R.H. to the Governours of Aberdeen in the beginning of April 
concerning such of the Inhabitants as had been absent during H.R.H.'s 
stay in that Town, these two men had after examination been admitted 
to bail, each for ;^ioo Str., And therefore they suppose that this Com- 
mittment by Your LoP must be upon some new discoveries, if not upon 
some new offense, which the Magistrats want to know, that they may 
either be set at liberty or proceeded against in a legal way. 

I need not tell Your LoP of how bad consequence it must be to his 
Majesty's Service when differences arrise between the Civil Magistrate 
and the Gentlemen of the Army, especially Officers of high rank. If they 
shall attempt to trample on the law itself, for the defence of which they 
were chiefly intended. But I'm perswaded that nothing can be further 
from Your LoP'^ inclinations. You have too great an Interest in the 
Country to wish to see our Laws and Libertys destroyed. And I dare say 



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have not made so strong a step without a very just and sujfficient 
cause. But then, if there is such a cause, Now that Blessed be God the 
peace of the Country is restored, the trading Merchants of a Royal 
Burgh shou'd not be detained in your main Guard, The Kings Goal is 
the place appointed for the Confinement of prisoners for Crimes, except 
from the necessity of the times the Country must be under a military 
Government, as was lately our Case, and the Cause of the Committment 
ought to be exprest in the warrant. 

I must likewise beg leave to notice to Your LoP that the Town of 
Aberdeen is now under a regular Magistracy, who are under no sus- 
picion of disaffection. And since the former Governours of Aberdeen 
pursuant to powers from H.R.H. put those men already under bail, 
I wish upon that separat account that Your LoP had signifyed to 
the Magistrats, or at least to me, the cause of your committing them. 

The regard I have for your LoP and your family made me first 
chuse to write to Your LoP in this way, because if the prisoners or 
Magistrats shall apply in the forms of law, the duty of my office 
will oblidge me and the Court itself to give such releif as the law 
directs. 

I was mighty glad to find by the precognition that was taken of the 
late Ryot at Aberdeen That Your LoP not only had no hand in it, but 
that you gave up the Authors of it to the Civil Magistrate. 

Endorsed : — loth Augt 1746. 

LVIII. 

Viscount Arbuthnott to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

Tho I have not the good Fortune of your Acquaintance, yet 
I am under a necessity to give your Lordship the trouble of this letter in 
order to lay before you a late act of injustice committed against me by 
Lieutenant Draper and his Dragoons of Cobhams Regiment now lying 
at Bervie, and at the same time to demand such reparation and redress 
as my case requires ; how soon my Lord Ancrams order for delivering up 
the Arms of Rebels and others was published,^ I acquainted Mr Draper 

1 Feildcn MSS. 

" The order was published " some time in July " at the churches of the city and county 
of Aberdeen. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 339. 



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by a letter what Arms I was Master of, and which were no more than 
what I am Privileged to have by Law, viz. a silver handed Sword, two 
mourning ones, two pair of pistols for my own use and my servants, and 
a fouling piece for my own diversion when I go to sport. I shoud have 
thought that Mr Draper woud not have adventured so far as to take 
these Arms from me, which are so necessary for me to have, but he has 
done it in the most arbitrary and forceable manner imaginable ; for on 
Munday last ^ he sent up a party of Dragoons here under the command 
of a Sergeant, who had orders to demand from me in his name the 
delivery of these Arms mentioned in my letter to him, and withall 
assuring me if I did not comply, that the party he had sent woud either 
burn my house, or committ such other outrages as it shoud think 
proper, so I was obliged to deliver up all these Arms to this party 
in order to prevent any further disturbence to my self and family, and I 
am now deprived of all my Arms, and have none now of any kind 
whatsoever either for my own proper use, or for my Servants when they 
travel with me abroad ; as this is a very hard case, so I am persuaded 
your Lordship will grant me such Satisfaction as I have a good title to 
demand, both as a Peer and a Subject that has alwaies lived peaceably 
and quietly under the government, and never done any one thing to 
provoke its displeasure. I must moreover plead that your LoP woud 
grant me a protection to my Mansion house of Arbuthnott here, for if 
I do not soon obtain this, I cannot live here in any tolerable peace or 
tranquility, when I have an Officer in my neighbourhood who is ever 
molesting and disturbing me all that lyes in his power, and creating me 
all the trouble and uneasyness imaginable. I expect from your LoPs 
Justice, honour and fair character that you will grant a favourable 
return to this my letter, which will be most acceptable and obliging to 
him, who is with all respect, My Lord 

Your LoPs Most Obedient and most humble Servant 




Arbuthnott house. 
August 8th 1746. 

^ August 4.. 



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if your LoP shall vouchsafe me a return to this letter, you'l please 
direct for the Viscount of Arbuthnott at Arbuthnott near Bervie by 
Edinburgh. 

Endorsed : — A. 27th. 

LIX. 

Major-General Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Horse Shoe Bay Augt 8th 1746. 
My Lord, 

This morning at Seven I was honour'd with your Lordps of 
the 6th with a Copy of the Orders given to Lieut. Col. Campbell for 
searching Glendassary etc. 

I thought it better to Send O'Neil to your LorP then to London, 
thinking it not impossible but that something might appear against 
him, which might entitle Him to the fate of Belew; your Lordship by 
this time will I suppose have heard what account He chooses to give of 
Himself; while here, besides calling Himself a Captain in Lally's Regi- 
ment, with this particular, that He defended the Pass at Veletri against 
Count Brown, where He was made a Prisoner,^ He says He was one of 
the Aid's de Camp to the Pretenders Second Son while the Invasion 
was threatend last year from Buloign, and that he was Sent over to 
Scotland with a particular Commission from the French Court. I juste 
thought it necessary to hint the above particulars that you might know 
if he was consistant in His account of Himself; and by the testimony 
of Several of the Prisoners I have on Board, He was a great favourite 
with the Young Pretender, and esteem'd as one of the Ablest Men in 
Military matters the French sent over. 

As Commodore Smith proposes Sailing Northward betwixt the 
Long Island and Continent the iirst fair Wind, I therefore had given 
Orders to the Officer who has the Care of Lady ClanRonald^ to deliver 
Her to any officer the Commodore Should Send to Loch Skipper^ for 
receiving Her. 

^FeildenMSS. 

^ Cf. his statement regarding himself in Enclosure i. in Lord Albemarle's letter of 
December i6, infra, No. CLXXXV. 

'^ Cf. Campbell's letter of August 4, supra, No. XXX. 
* Loch Skiport in South Uist. 

L 



82 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

The Laird of ClanRonald by a letter to the Duke has own'd the 
Crime for which I confin'd him, but Should He or any of the Prisoners 
I have with me retract from what they own'd on their Examination, I 
have Secur'd Evidences against them. 

As I did not know what Orders your Lordship might give in 
Consequence of the Intelligence I Sent last, I did not Order the lOo 
Men I have in Mull to Join the rest at Strontian, but I immagine those 
with Col. Campbell will be Sufficient ; and as your LordP has given no 
directions for the disposal of the Said loo Men, I shall in a day or two 
Order them to be Landed at Dunstafnage. 

When I tell your LordP that I have Accounts to Settle of Some 
moment to me, and that Colonel Campbell and his Paymaster are very 
necessary therein, I am perswaded you will not be against His Staying 
with me Some days at Inveraray. I don't propose this as a party of 
Pleasure, so that I am perswaded your LordP will agree to what is 
absolutely necessary, by which you will Oblige, My Lord 
Your Lordship's most obedient 

and affectionate Humble Servant 

JOHN CAMPBELL. 
Earl of Albemarle. 

Endorsed : — A. nth. 

LX. 

Sheriff Grant to the Lord Justice-Clerk.^ 

My Lord, 

The design of this Trouble is to inform your LoP that yester- 
days morning I was greatly Surprised to see my House surrounded with 
Sixty Soldiers commanded by Captain Morgan, Lievt. John Bruce and 
Ensign Blackfoord Strang, of Brigadeer Fleemmings Regiment. The 
Capt. did not come to my House But stopt at the Corner of the Park at 
the ifoot of my Avenue, and sent the two Subalterns w^ the Soldiers to 
search my house, as they pretended, for Rebells. One of the Officers 
was acquaint wt me, and said he was ashamed to Search the Shirriffs 
house, and would not do it, Altho' I gave him free Access and told him 

1 Feilden MSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. S3 

I should show him every Corner of it. He said he would return to his 
Capt. and desire him to come to witness the Search. The C apt. refused 
to come But ordered them to do it Narrowly, which they accordingly 
did. They then told me That they were ordered by the Capt. to lodge 
Fourty men in my house ; I said, that [it was] contrary to Law, And yt 
I would complain to the Officers of State for being insulted, And that I 
would take a protest against them, and after long reasoning They went 
away to a Tennents house of mine who sells ale, and drank about 
Seventy Scots pints of Ale and paid nothing for it ; they robb'd Blan- 
kets, Sheets and Pullivers,^ etc. from the Tennant. The Blankets were 
found hid by the Soldiers among the Corns, But the Sheets and Bolsters 
were taken away ; they emptyed the Bolsters on the ffloor, and when he 
complained to the officers he got no redress, Yea they threatened to 
Burn his house ; My Lord if such usage be allowed to be given to 
a Magistrate, there is no living in the Country ; I earnestly entreat your 
LoP will lay my case before the Earl of Albimarl who, no doubt, will 
give me Redress or write to Collonell Jackson who Commands the 
Regiment at Abd" ; for they have no regard to a Civill Officer. There 
were no Rebells here, nor did one man go out of this parish to the 
Rebellion, nor was there ever a Rebell at my house Since the Christ- 
mass we6k that Dugud of Auchenhove came with Sixty of the Rebells 
and Seased my Tennants and kept them prisoners in my own house, 
when I was with the Laird of Grant ; my Tennants were robb'd by 
Auchenhove and his Rebell-partie of Two hundred pounds Sterlg, and 
it's a veiy hard case now that I should be maltreat by the Kings 
Officers, when I'm in the Exercise of my office, and I'm affiaid that 
they'll yet send Soldiers to Quarter here, altho' there is not one Gentle- 
man in this Corner that was concerned in the Rebellion. It's from 
your LoP that I expect Redress, and I hope you'll be so kind as to 
Countenance one that has Sufferred greatly and has been faithfuU in the 
Exercise of his Duty. I spent my own money and attended his Royall 
Highness all the time he was at Abd", as Lord Strichen well knows 
and I waited of the Duke and Army, provideing Quarters and fforrage 
for them over Spey, and to be now so ill used is very hard. I hope 
your LoP will honour me w"^ a Return, as I think my honour greatly 
engaged. If the officers alledge that they got Information that Rebells 

^ I.e., pillow-cases. 



84 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

were here They ought in Justice to give an Account of the Informer that 
he may be prosecute as the Law directs. I'm determined not to lye 
under such an aspersion. If the Law will give Redress I need say no 
more, only I earnestly beg you'll consider the above And honour me with 
a return to prevent such usage in time Coming ; pardon this long Letter 
and beleive me to be most faithfullie 

My Lord 
Your LoPs most obedt and oblidged Hu^* Serv* 

(Sign'd) M. GRANT. 
Grantfield Augt 8th 1746. 



LXI. 

Major-General Blakeney to THE Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness 8th August 1746. 

My Lord, 

I received the Honour of your Lordship's letter dated this 
Day, with the two letters that were enclosed, and I have Ordered one 
Subaltern and twenty Men to receive Captain O'Neil at the Generals 
Hutt.2 

The Officers are rejoiced at their being assured of receiving Forage 
for their Horses, or an allowance for maintaining them. 

I hope your Lordship has received the letter I wrote last night,^ 
with Mons"" du Desert's examenation. 

Lord Lewis Drummond desires your Lordship will be pleased to 
Order the three Inclosed letters to be forwarded, after you have perused 
them. 

The Peet or Turff here is very Scarce and very bad, being ill saved, 
and many of the Inhabitants who have Soldiers Quartered upon them 
are so poor that they will not be able to supply our men with necessary 

1 Feilden MSS. 

^ Captain O'Neil remained a prisoner at Inverness until ISIovember 12, when he was sent 
to Cromarty en route for Edinburgh, where he arrived on November 22, and was confined to 
the Castle. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 544. 

3 Supra, No. LIV. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 85 

firing, so that we shall be in a bad Condition this Winter, unless some 
method is taken for our being furnished with Coals. 
I am with great Respect 
My Lord 
Your Lordships 

most humble and most obedient Servant 
WILL. BLAKENEY. 

Rt Honble the Earl of Albemarle. 

Endorsed : — A. i8th. 

Lxn. 

Alexander Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

By order of Gen^' Campbell came here last night, McDonald 
of Morer,^ Kenlochmoydorts Brother, three Irish officers, and a Priest. 
I send them to your Lordship ; as also three men Capt Scott appre- 
hended in the Isles, which he desired might be sent the first oppertunity ; 
the officer who Commanded the party from Strontian tells me there is 
14 more prisoners to be sent here. I beg your Lordships directions 
about them. 

I am 

My Lord 

Your Lordships Most obed^ 

and most humble Serv^ 

ALEXR CAMPBELL. 
Fort Wi" Augst ye 9th 1746. 

Endorsed: — A. nth. 

1 Feilden MSS. 

2 Captain Ranald Macdonald (cf. Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 5 «.). He had been taken prisoner 
by Captain Noble. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 341. 



86 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

LXIII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Edenburgh the gth Augst 1746. 
My Lord, 

Yesternight I had the Honour of your LoPs letter of the 5th ^ 
from Fort Augustus, with the account of your haveing apprehended old 
Glengary ^ upon an information,* whereof your LoP has sent me a Copy, 
and as the Information is Signed by people in actual Rebellion, that 
there is no way of comeing at them in order to Examine them upon 
Oath, but by granting them a protection for their persons for a limited 
time ; and desireing my Advice. In these Matters your LoP can Judge 
much better than I can do. But in Obedience to your Commands, 
I shall submitt to your LoPs consideration what occurs to me. 

There was very early a Report of Glengarys haveing received the 
money mentioned in the Information, and that his outward appearance 
of takeing no part in the Rebellion was only Grimace must have appeared 
to the Duke before his house was burnt ; to that the whole facts charged 
against him in the Information may Probably be true ; and therfore, I 
should think it for the Service of the Goverment to have Evidence 
to convict Glengary, and if what your LoP proposes can take effect, 
no Evidence can be more proper, to set these Rogues at variance 
and destroy the Cheifs, the authors of all our Mischeifs, that, Acteon 
like, they may die by their own Dogs. Since there is little hopes of 
Catching the Signers of that Information by Force, the only method left 
is to grant them a protection for their person, as your LoP proposes. 
I wish they may come all at one time, that they may be at once Separ- 

1 Feilden MSS. ^ It is printed infra, Appendix No. VIII. (Enclosure ii.). 

^ It is printed infra. Appendix No. VIII. (Enclosure i.). 

■* John Macdonell of Glengarry had not joined the Prince. His younger son Angus had, , 
however, done so and had been accidentally killed at Falkirk after the battle. Glengarry's 
heir Alexander (Mr. Andrew Lang's " Pickle ") had been sent to France in May, 1745, to 
communicate with the Prince on behalf of the Scottish Jacobites. The Prince had, however, 
already sailed for Scotland, and Young Glengarry was, upon his return, apprehended and 
confined in the Tower until after Culloden. — Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 5 n. Old Glengarry was 
committed prisoner to Edinburgh Castle upon August 23 , 1746, and did not receive his Hberty 
until October, 1749. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 392 ; vol. xi., p. 459. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 87 

ately examined, for the Highlanders are all false and cunning. H.R.H. 
granted a protection to Barisdale (the first of the Subscribers of this 
Information) ^ which, upon the shortcomeing of his proposed merite, was 
not renewed. It is not impossible but this may be another fetch of his 
to save his Sweet Bacon (for he is and has been a cheif and notorious 
Transgressor). However, it certainly will be right to be at the bottom 
of this matter, that the Government may then Judge what is proper to 
be done. Barisdale is so well known that he will have good luck if he 
be able to impose on them ; The greatest Rogues may sometimes prove 
good tools, in wise hands. I have made some enquiry into the Char- 
ecters of the other Subscribers. Rhonald Macdonald of Shian has ever 
had the character of a Theif, and every other bad thing ; old Scothouse ^ 
and his Sons are reckoned the most harmless of the theiveish Litter of 
Glengary. The Charecters of the others I have not been able to learn. 
By converseing with Glengary and Barisdale your LoP will soon See 
that Barisdale could sell Glengary in a mercat, and therefore, that 
neither Glengarys influence nor Commands can extenuate Barisdale's 
Guilt. But I own, I am not sure whither it would be proper to Examine 
these Informers upon Oath. I know not what are the designs of the 
Government with respect to them, whither to pardon or to punish them, 
and if the last is intended, I should not chuse to take a mans Oath 
concerning any Crime, or his associates in it, that was afterwards to be 
tryed for that very Crime ; nor can any greater discoveries be expected 
from them upon Oath than without it. At the Same time we cannot 
know, till they be examined, whither they themselves are the proper and 
necessary witnesses against their Cheif, or if they only are to direct 
where proper Evidence can be had ; there is another Circumstance, 
likeways, to be considered. Glengary is not charged with being in Arms, 
or with personally joining with those that were ; and therefore cannot, 
upon the late Act of parliament, be carried to England to be tryed, but 
must be tryed in the County, and I have not yet heard that it is resolved 
to have any Tryalls for High Treason in this Countrey. But till Such 

^ Incidentally this confirms the evidence which establishes Barrisdale's perfidy. C/. Mr. 
Lang's chapter on him in his Companions of Pickle. 

^ Donald Macdonell of Scotus, " Glengarie's cousin-germane," had been among the first 
to offer assistance to the Prince after his arrival in Scotland in July, 1745. — Blaikie, Itinerary, 
p. 112. 



88 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

a Resolution is taken, I imagine the Government will not Pardon Such 
Notorious Rogues as Some of these Informers are, even to give Evidence 
against Glengary. Therefore the Method that to me Seems safest and 
least lyable to exceptions is, to Examine them without any Oath, and if 
possible, by Cross Questions to discover from them other proper Evi- 
dence against Glengary, either by Witnesses or writeings ; but still 
takeing their Declarations in writeing, and Signed by them. I shall 
be very glad if I have been able to suggest any usefull hints to your 
LoP, wherby you may make further and more certain Observations ; for 
one has need to be on their Guard that deals with so abandoned artfull 
Rogues. 

There is not anything that could give me greater pleasure than that 
part of your Letter Signifyeing your LoPs inclinations that for the 
Future, Civil and Military powers may agree in Every Point ; as there 
is nothing that can contribute more to the Glory of His Majestys 
Government, the Honour of the Army, and the Happyness of the 
Countrey. I confess I was grieved to hear so many Complaints of 
Officers in the Army, that were destroying that happy Constitution, and 
trampling on those very Laws that they so lately defended at the 
Expence of their Blood ; it is indeed impossible that so many men can 
be brought together, as are in the army, without haveing Some wrong 
headed men among them, But if they are once made to know that such 
men can hope for no protection from your LoP against the Laws of the 
Land, but that they must expect to incur your Displeasure, that will 
soon bring them to a more sober way of thinking and acting. And if at 
any time it should happen that they are ill used, or unjustly provoked, 
by the people of the Countrey, If they will but complain to the Civil 
Magistrate, they will soon find that the Law will give them better satis- 
faction than they would even chuse to take to themselves. And your 
LoP may always be assured of my best endeavours to assist you in 
accomplishing so good a design as the restoring a perfect Harmony 
between the Civil and Military powers, by preventing, as far as possible, 
all causes of Complaint on either Side ; and so oft as they shall happen, 
by endeavouring, to have them amicably Settled ; and I must beg leave 
to Felicitate both this Countrey and my Self that we have a Commander 
in cheif that has the peace and happyness of the Countrey so much at 
heart. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 89 

Captain Hamilton, according to my information, is a very Sensible 

man, and I dare say if he has erred, he has been first led into it by Zeal 

for His Majestys Service, and therefore what your LoP proposes, that I 

should find means to get parties to agree, is I think the duty of Every 

person who wishes well to our happy constitution, and what I have 

been laying Schemes to bring about, which I hope cannot fail. I send 

your LoP enclosed a Copy of Captain Hamiltons Letter to me, of the 4th 

Instant, and of my answer,^ laying the plan to get both parties to agree. 

As to the affair of Aberdeen, Captain Morgan is blamed ; he is 

young, but has found Bail, which blunts the edge of the Complaint. I 

have also enclosed copy of the Magistrates [of] Aberdeen Letter to me and 

my Answer,^ calculated in the best way I could think of for the desired 

end, and I shall be glad my endeavours meet with your LoPs approbation. 

I have the Honour to be with the utmost Respect 

My Lord 

Your LoPs 
Most Obedient and Most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 

P.S. — Since writeing, I hear L^ Ancram has imprisoned two Mer- 
chants of Aberdeen who were bailed by the late Governours and 
approved of by Bruce.^ I have wrote to Lord Ancram to know the 
cause ; if it be not some thing strong, this is ill timed. Great SoUicita- 
tions are makeing, some for L^ Kilmarnock others for L^ Cromartie, to 
avoid a determination.* Justice may come to prevail against Both. 

This express brings your LoPs Letters by the post. 

Endorsed: — A. i6th. 

LXIV. 

The Master of Lovat to the Earl of Loudoun. ^ 

My Lord, 

The honour I hade of being a Litle known to your Lordship 
maks me presume to give you this truble. 

^ Supra, No. XXXIX. "^Stipra, No. XXXIIL ^ Supra, No. LVH. 

■• They had been condemned to death on August i. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 378. 

^ Feilden MSS, 

M 



go THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Was it in my Power, the just Sense I have of my own folly woud 
make me Conceall my being Concerned In the Late unhappy Rebellion, 
but it is too well known for me to Attempt that, nor will I offer any 
Apology or Alleviation, as I am Sensible how little weight they would 
Bear to my fault. His majesties Goodness is now my only hope and I 
Resolve to Submit my self to his marcie. If the Error of my youth is 
pardond, it shall be the worke of my old age to attone for it. Had I 
been in the Country I intended to have thrown my Self at His Royall 
Highness feet, but his Sudden departure Prevented me ; as I was so 
unlucky as to miss this Opertunity of Sharing In the Goodness H.R.H. 
dispenc'd to my unlucky Countrymen, Lord Albemarles Character and 
Generosity Encourages me in the Duk's absence to Surrender mys'lf to 
his LoP, especially as Lord Loudoun is next in the Command. I will 
therefore be at Invermorison or any oyr Place in Glenmorison your LoP 
pleases to Appoint about 2 o'Clock Tuesdays afternoon ^ to wait the 
Earl of Albemarles pleasure. 

I have the honour to be 
My Lord, 
Your LoPs Most obedient faithfull Humble Servant ^ 

Sic. Sub. 

Culgaran Augt loth 1746. 

LXV. 

The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness August loth 1746. 
My Lord, 

The man who caryed the letters relating to the Master of 
Lovat, and who was a Soldier of my own, behaved so ill that I overtook 

^ August 12. 

2 He had joined the Prince with the Erasers after the former's return to Scotland from 
the march to Derby. After his surrender, Eraser remained at Fort Augustus until September. 
He was thence conveyed, on November 12, to Edinburgh. From there he was on August 15, 
1747, transferred to Glasgow.— Sco^^s Magazine, vol. viii., p. 544; vol. ix„ p. 402. C/. Appen- 
dix, No. XXXn. (Enclosure i,), infra. 

3 Feilden MSS. 



i 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 9I 

him on the road, which occasioned the notice being sent so late last 
night that I am afraid the Surender ^ can not be made hear this day ; 
but if that should be the case, I have appointed it to be on Monday night 
or twesday Morning^ in the Neighbourhood of Fort Augustus, according 
as the Distance he is at will allow him to come. 

I have sent orders to my own Reg*^ at Ruthvan to hold them selves 
in readyness to March on Wedensday, and have ordered the Independant 
Compan3^es to March in Search of some deserters and to be in Strath 
Errick on twesday evening in order to be ready to take possession of 
Fort Augustus as soon as your LoP Marches from thence.^ 

But as I understand your LoP inclines to cary to the Store the 
Arms which the Grants have been Collecting at Dalrackne, at Castle 
Grant, and at an other Gentlemans house in Strath Spey, which last I 
am informed still has a good many that he took from the Rebells after 
the Battel of Culloden, I have left a party to bring them to town. If I 
receve your LoPs Order to that purpose, If they meet me tomorow 
morning on the road I shall forward them, as I stay this night for the 
return of the Message I have sent about the Surender. 
I am with great Esteem and Respect 
My Lord 
Your Lordships Most obedient humble Servant 




Endorsed : — A. nth. 

^ I.e., of the Master of Lovat. ^ August ii or 12. 

' Loudoun's regiment and seventeen Independent Companies occupied Fort Augustus 
after Lord Albemarle with the troops there left it on August 13. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., 
P- 394- 



9^ ttlE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

LXVI. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Calp August loth 

5 o'clock afternoon. 
My Lord, 

According to Your Lordships orders I arriv'd Yesterday 
morning by day break at Glendisary, but finding no party I search'd 
that whole country for five miles around, but could get no intelligence 
of the pretenders son having been there lately ; there is but one Shiling 
in all Glendisary which is inhabited, we took two of these people after 
following them four miles ; but after we had sworn them, and whip'd 
them severely with belts, they still declard that they had not heard of 
the pretenders son being there lately,^ but that Doctor Cameron had 
been there three days before.^ 

We apprehended on our search a serjeant who had deserted from 
Lord John Murrays Regiment ; he had been in Glenpain the day before 
we came there and gave us the same inteligence as above. I remained 
in Glendisary till near twelve o'Clock this day, but as no party appeared 
and my provisions ran short I found my self obligd to return to Strontian, 
as there is scare a cow left in this country to subsist us. 

By My fathers last letter I receivd direction to march the men home 
and dissmiss them if I did not receive Your Lordships orders to the con- 
trary, So that I shall remain at Strontian till I receive Your order for 
that purpose. I hope Your Lordship will excuse the incorrectness of 
this Letter as I have little convenience of writing and am extreamly 
fatigu'd. 

I am, my Lord, 

With the greatest respect, 
Your Lordships most obedient Servant 

JOHN CAMPBELL. 

Endorsed: — A. 12th. 

1 Feilden MSS. 

^ The Prince in the course of his wanderings had passed through Glen Dessary about 
three weeks before Campbell was searching for him there. Cf. map in Mr. Blaikie's Itinerary. 
^Dr. Cameron, Lochiel's brother, joined the Prince at Loch Arkaig on August 20. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 93 

LXVII. 

Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness loth August 1746. 
My Lord, 

Inclosed^ is a Return of the Arms etc in the Store here, as 
also a Return of the Number of Rebels that have surrendered them- 
selves, and the Arms they have delivered in to the Store. 

The sixteenth Article of the Act of Parliament, for the Quartering 
of Officers etc. in Scotland, referrs to the Laws that were in force there 
at the time of the Union, which I am a Stranger to, and as I would not 
give the Kings Enemies any Just cause to complain of the behaviour of 
His Troops, I humbly desire your Lordship will be pleased to explain 
that act to me, or send me your Commands v^hat I am to demand from 
the Inhabitants here for the use of the Officers and Soldiers quartered 
upon them. 

Mr Gomeperra will furnish this Garrison with money for next 
Month, so that we shall have time to fix upon a method to be supplyed 
for the future. I shall send that Paragraph of your letter dated the 
gth Instant to Handasydes and Mordaunts Regiments as soon as 
Possible, but how the Garrison of Fort William is to be supplyed with 
money I cannot tell. 

Captain O'Neil ^ arrived here yesterday, and I have given directions 
in relation to him pursuant to Your Lordships Commands. 
I am with great Respect 
My Lord 

Your Lordships 
Most humble and most obedient Servant 

WILL. BLAKENEY. 

Right Honble the Earl of Albemarle. 
Endorsed : — A. 12th. 

1 Feilden MSS. 2 -phe return is not among the Feilden MSS. 

' Supra, p. 84. 



94 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

LXVIII. 

Alexander Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I have the Honnour of both Your Lordshipes Letters and 
shall punctwall obey the Commands Your Lordshipe lays upon me. I 
have now in Store nere 2000 Bolls Oat Meall and shall give what 
Assistence I find needfull towards providing other Provisions. I shall 
forward the Building the Barracks with what expedition possible, so as 
the wholl of Brigr Houghtons Men may be able to come into the ffort.^ 
A Supply of Ammunition and Warlike Stores we expect from the Town ; 
as for Pouther and Shot there is alredy Sufficient. 

I sent off a Boat this morning with your Lordshipes Letter to 
Comodore Smith. I wish Your Lordshipe a Safe arivil at Eden^, and 
I am My Lord 

Your Lordshipes Most Obedient and 

very Humble Serv^ 

ALEXR CAMPBELL. 
Fort William ye nth Augt 1746. 

P.S. — I send a post Weekly to Ed', who shall cal on your Lordshipe 
for your Commands. 

Endorsed : — A. 12th. 

LXIX. 

Lord Balgonie to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Elgin, August nth 1746. 
My Lord, 

I had the honour of Your LoPs. Letter from Fort Augustus, 
in Consequence of which I again presume to give you this trouble, to 
acquaint Your Lordship that General Handasyds Regiment is at present 

1 Feilden MSS. 

2 On May 21, 1746, Houghton's regiment had relieved Guise's regiment at Fort William. 
— Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 286. 

3 Feilden MSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 95 

settled in its quarters at this place, as you was pleased to desire I 
shou'd, and was so good as to say You wou'd grant my Request of 
going home. I have the honour to be with great Respect 

My Lord 
Your Lordships Most obedient and Most humble Serv* 

BALGONIE. 

Endorsed : — A. 25th. 

LXX. 

Lawrence Dundas to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Edinr nth August 1746. 
My Lord, 

When I came here at the time His Royall Highness left 
Fort Augustus, I immediatly went thro' the houses in this town to see if 
I Could find any One fit for Your LoP.^ I wrote Mr Dundas that you 
Could not have the Duke of Queensberrys, it being promised to Lord 
Stair ; there are some Other houses that I wrote him about, but I would 
not Venture taking any of them Untill your LoP should come to town 
and see them yourself. I desired him at Same time to Auquaint you 
that your LoP might go for some days into Sir John Copes house. 
Capt. Masterton has with me been looking at it, And thinks it 
will do very well. It is not Compleatly furnished, there being no beds, 
unless for some Servants. You will please therefor let me know by the 
bearer If I shall cause put a bed up in the Room where your LoP must 
lay, or if you will Sleep in your field Bed. The Bed and every Other 
thing can be done in two days, so what orders you give I shall Observe. 
I shall Likeways put every Other thing in the Best Order Possible. 

The Country house I hope will Please Your LoP better than the 
one in town. There is in the house, besides the Appartment for your 
LoP, a very good dining Room, Drawing room. Parlor, and Six Ex- 
ceeding good Sleeping rooms, with housekeep^s room, and very fine 
Conveniencys for Servants. 

1 Feilden MSS. 

^ Lord Albemarle left Fort Augustus on August 13 and proceeded by way of Blair and 
Dunkeld to Edinburgh, where he remained for the rest of the year. 



^6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

The Stabling is not so good as I Expected, there being at Present 
only room for Eliven horses, but I hope to have Another Stable fitted 
up befor you come to town, that will hold Eight horses more. There 
is a very good Garden, and I have Secured ten Acres of Grass ground. 
If that is not sufficient I can have as much more. Every thing that I 
can think your LoP will want I shall put into both houses. 

Any Other Commands that your LoP may have I beg to know. 
I am 

My Lord 
Your LoPs Most Obedient humble Servant 

LAWR. DUNDAS. 

Endorsed : — A. i6th. 



LXXL 

Major Rufane to Major Roper.^ 

Fort William August ye nth 1746. 

Sir, 

I send for our Sick pursuant to Lord Albemarles Orders ; 
for some days past they have Worked very diligently at the New 
Barracks, to which I shall not fail to give what Assistance may be 
required of us. 

I much wonder who could tell Lord Albemarle that most of our 
officers lay in Garrison whilst the Men were in Camp. It gives me no 
small Concern that I should suffer in his Lordship's opinion from such 
a Report, as I most justly should deserve to do if it were fact, but it is 
so much the contrary, that till within these two days that I have brought 
the greatest part of the Regiment into the Fort, (where, though as yet 
but ill Accomodated, they may be better than in Camp in this Weather), 
I never suffered more than three or four officers to ly out of the Camp, 
and a number of Officers in proportion to the Men still continue out with 
them. 

Mr Douglass tells me from Lord Albemarle that we may have what 
Shoes we want for the Regiment of those bespoke for the Army at 

1 Feilden MSS. 



J 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 97 

Glascow. I shall Write by the first Post to Secure four hundred pair, 
which with those coming with the Cloathing will be more than Sufficient 
to Compleat every man with two good pair. 

I am, 

Sir, 
Your Most obedient Servant 

WM. RUFANE. 

Endorsed : — -A. 12th. 

LXXII. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Fort Augustus, Augst 12^^ 1746. 

My Lord, 

I was in hopes to have heard from your Grace before now, 
and to have received his Majesty's Instructions for my future conduct in 
this country, which I hope I shall have before I get to Edinburgh, for 
which place I set out tomorrow morning, driven from hence by the 
badness of the weather, the nakedness of the men, and our Tents being 
worn out, as I before mentioned. 

The last Party I sent out (upon a report that the Pretenders Son 
was in Glendassary) returned last night without any tidings of him, and 
I can make no conjecture of the place he lies concealed in, therefore 
cannot help suspecting he is gone off, either in some of the small French 
vessels that have been hovering along the coast, or in a Boat to the 
Long Island, for I am most certain, the Report of his being in Bade- 
noch was groundless, having had several Parties from the Dragoons 
quartered upon the Coast, and from the Foot at Aberdeen, Strathbogie, 
Castle Menzies and Blair, who have most narrowly searched that whole 
country.^ 

I shall march with the Troops, and not leave them till I see them 
Quartered at Perth, Stirling and other Places, according to H.R.H.'s 
commands to me. 

^ S.P. Scotland, George II. Bundle 34. No. 9. 

^ On the date of this letter the Prince was in the Braes of Glenmoriston. — The Lyon, 
vol. i., p. 346. 

N 



98 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Lord Loudoun ^ shall have my orders to send frequent Parties out 
on the least notice, which I apprehend will be the most effectuall way 
to come at and secure him, for I am convinced our detachments have 
always been betrayed by People that the Rebels had on the top of the 
High Hills, who by some signall agreed on could always convey any 
intelligence from one to another in a short space of time. 

Yesterday the Nine Prisoners whose names are enclosed were sent 
to me from Fort William. I have sent them to Inverness, but no Evi- 
dence were sent against them. I have writ to both Major Gen^l Camp- 
bell and his Son the Lieu* Col. to send the proper Proofs to Gen^l 
Blakeney, who has my directions to transmit them to Lord Justice 
Clerk. 

I am with the greatest Respect 
My Lord 
Your Grace's most obedient Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 

P.S. — The three enclosed Letters came from Lord Lewis Drum- 
mond, who begs after your Grace has perused them, you will forward as 
directed.^ 

D. of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 22^- 

(Enclosure.) 
A List of Prisoners sent from Fort William. 

Augst nth 1746. 

Neil Robinson 

John Robinson 

John Raine 

Ronald McDonald 

Allan McDonald of Morer 

Lt Morgan M^Mahon 

1 When Albemarle broke up the camp at Fort Augustus on August 13, Loudoun remained 
there in command. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 394. 

2 These letters are not in the Bundle. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 99 

Ens. McDonald 
Ens. McDonald 
James Grant, a priest. 
Endorsed : — In the E. of Albemarles 
of Augt 12, 1746. 

LXXIII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Edenburgh 12th Aug 1746 
g in the Morning. 
My Lord, 

I have the Honour of your LoPs of the gth, And in answer 
therto, I have enclosed a Copy of his Grace the Duke of Newcastles 
Letter to me dated the 11 July last, containing his Majestys orders to 
send the Prisoners therein described under a Sufficient Guard to 
Carlisle ; -as soon as I received this Letter, which was on the 14 July, I 
sent a Copy of it to His Royall Highness under Cover to S' Everard 
Fawkener, and did not doubt but that it had been communicated to your 
LoP. After this, my orders were directed only to the Sheriffs to send 
the prisoners contained in a List transmitted to them, and to apply to 
the nixt Commanding officer for a Sufficient Guard ; upon application 
of the Sheriff of Aberdeen, L,^ Ancram sent double the number of 
prisoners desired. I did not take it upon me to send any orders to any 
officer, or name the number of the party that was to go ; upon knowing 
the number of prisoners, the officer was the best Judge. I did indeed 
write to fir Gen^i Mordaunt that it would be necessary that ye party he 
sent should carry the Prisoners all the way to Carlysle, as Collonell Lee 
could not furnish a party to relieve them. Brigr Gen'i Mordaunt 
thought fit to send 200, to guard betwixt 50 and 60 prisoners. Co'^ Lee 
sent only 100 with about 140 prisoners, but he could spare no more. 
Genii Bland sent 60 with 57 prisoners ; what the Commanding Officer 
in Angus will do with the Prisoners from Montrose, Dundee, etc. I have 
not heard. I wrote to no Officer But to Gen^i Mordaunt, to let him 
know that he needed not hope for any relief from the Regiment here. 

1 Feilden MSS. 



100 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

These are all the Applications I made, after haveing transmitted my 
orders to his Royall Highness who then Commanded. If I have been in 
the wrong it is for want of Knowledge in these Matters. I shall alwayes 
be thankfull to be set right by your LoP, and shall for the Future make 
my Applications only to your LoP. In the Execution of the orders I 
have already received I hope it will not be necessary for me to make 
any further applications except for a Small party from this place. 
I have the honour to be with the Utmost Respect, 

My Lord, 
Your LoPs Most Obedient and most humble Servant 

AND FLETCHER. 

P.S. — I have taken the Liberty to desire of Co^l Lee that six of his 
men who are matereal witnesses against the prisoners may be left at 
Carlysle, and I have desired the same favour of y^ Commanding Officer 
of Gen^^ Hamiltons Dragoons for five of their men, and of one private 
man from the Commanding Officer of y^ Castle of Ed^., who are all 
addressed to Mr Philip Carteret Webb, Solliciter, on behalf of his 
Majesty, of which I beg your LoP^ Approbation. 

I have enclosed Copy of Information [against] George and Pat 
Leiths ; ^ there must have been some sort of reason for such procedure, 
which is not taken notice of in the Information. 

I have also taken the Liberty to enclose a Copy of the Magistrates 
of Aberdeens Letter to me of the 8th with my Answer, and Letter to 
Lord Ancram on that occasion,^ and beg pardon for giveing your LoP so 
much trouble. 

Endorsed : — A. i6th. 

LXXIV. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Edenbr 12 Aug 1746. 
My Lord, 

Since closeing my Letter to y^ LoP of this date, I hear from 
Grenock that the Matty of Glasgow arrived there the nth, Jo. Gray 

1 It is not among the MSS. Cf. No. XLVIIL supra. 
^ Supra, No. LVIL ^ Peilden MSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. lOl 

Master, in a fortnight from Bourdeaux, and Reports that it is beheved 
there that the Brest Squadron was designed against Cape Bretton, and 
that they flattered themselves with great Success in that Expedition ; 
That their accounts from Flanders were discourageing, on account of 
the desertion among the Troops and Misunderstandings among the 
Gen'l Officers, While the Army of the Allies were every day increasing, 
and that a report prevailed of an Insurrection among the Huguenots in 
the Countrey betwixt Rochelles and Bourdeaux ; that 7 or 8000 Men 
were Said to have gathered in arms, but no Officers to head them. 

The Resolution in Cabinet with Respect to the three condemned 
peers ^ is keept Secret, possibly to prevent Sollicitations. 

I have inclosed a Copy of a Letter from the Sheriff of Aberdeen 
with a Complaint,^ to appearance well founded ; when once your LoPs 
Just and Generous Opinion in these Matters comes to be known, I am 
fully perswaded that both Officers and Soldiers will think a little before 
they proceed to extreamitys, and that the Subject shall have no further 
reasons of Complaint. I have the Honour to be with the utmost 
Respect, My Lord, Your Lops Most Obedient and most humble Ser- 
vant 

AND FLETCHER. 

Endbrsed : — A. i6th. 



LXXV. 
Colonel Borland to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

Yr L^P will see the Strength of your Regim* diminish'd by 
the number of Vestry men discharg'd this last week, and by what I 
could learn yesterday from Gen' Folliott, we shall soon dismiss more of 
them, for I find they will not be easy till they have clear'd the Corps of 
Guards of all those that are either unwilling or unfitt for the Service. 

The only news I have to mention to Y"" L^P is the Death of poor 
Jemmy Brudnell, whose Seat in Parliam^ I hear is to be filled up by L^ 
Bury, which pleases me extreamly. 

1 Lords Kilmarnock, Balmerinoch, and Cromarty. 

2 Supra, No. LX. =* Feilden MSS. 



102 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

The Beginning of next week Kilmarnock and Balmerino are to 
suffer ; I am heartily sorry I cannot add the third.^ 
I am, My Lord, 
Yr L<ips most Humble and Obed* Serv* 

H. BORLAND. 
Park Street 12th Augt 1746. 
Endorsed : — A. Sept. 4th. 

LXXVL 
George Douglas to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

Your Lordshipe has Inclosed what I hope will be some way 
Satisfactory. I sent a Messanger to the Person Yesterday Morning 
(who mised him) as he came within a few Miles of the place and sent 
in for me about ten in the Morning ; he beggs your Lordshipe may not 
be uneasie at not having heard from him ; what he gives yow now or 
will do in a Week hereafter yow may depend on as matters of ffact. 
What he transmits to me is to have a mark whither it requires to be 
sent directly to Your Lordshipe or only to Gen^ Blakney. The Person 
asked me whither I understood at your Quarters if there was any Sus- 
picion of Duke Hamilton ; when I told him that Lord Traquir was in 
Custody,® as to Duke Hamilton I could not give him any account. 

As I have oblidged my self to Provide the troops here with their 
provisions at the most easie rate, and that Beeff must be provided for 
their Winter Store, I begg leave to Aquaint your Lordshipe that the 
cheapest and most sertain way of doing it is. That I Imploy a Person 
who I know has never been in Rebellion to buy Catle for me and Graise 
them on his own land till wanted for the use of the Men. This Person 
will under take to do it for me provided I get the Catle Protected when 
they are bought by him and brought to the place for my use to serve 

1 I.e., Lord Cromarty, who on August g was reprieved. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 381. 

2 Feilden MSS. 

^ The Earl of Traquair was arrested at Great Stoughton in Huntingdonshire on July 29, 
and was committed to the Tower on August 9, 1746. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 396. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. IO3 

the troops ; as this is for the good of the Service, Your Lordshipe will 
not I hope thinke I make an unreasonable demand That Yow will please 
give me Your Authority to Imploy a Person (who has been no Rebell) 
to Buy Catle and keep them for me to Serve the troops as I may see 
occasion, and those Catle to be protected. 

I am with great Esteem 
My Lord 
Your Lordshipes Most Obed^ and Most Humble Servant 

GEORGE DOUGLASS. 
Fort William 
ye I2th Augt 1746. 

Majr Rufane Aproves of the within Meothod. I Propose to get 
Catle for his Men. 

Endorsed : — A. 13th. 

LXXVH. 

The Earl of Ancram to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

In obedience to your Lordships Commands I have examined 
into the Complaint made by Lord Cobham's Dragoons against Major 
Chabane, and find that when he came here he desired Mr Scott to kill 
an ox for the use of the Regiment ; the ox being Stall-fed was valued at 
three pence a pound, which the Dragoons thought too much and refused 
to buy any of it. The Major says that he thought himself obliged to 
pay for the ox, which he did, and gave it to the Poor of the town rather 
than to the Dragoons, thinking himself ill used by them. I have also, 
my Lord, inquired into the Conduct of Captain Hamilton,^ by what I 
h^ve as yet heard, what is laid to his Charge is disposing of the Cattle 
of some Rebels for the use of the Partie ; if any thing more appears I 
shall have the honour to acquaint your Lordship with it. 

I received your Lordships Commands for the Dragoons to march 
to their Grass Quarters as relieved by the Foot, and sent Copys of the 
March Rout to the Several Regiments, who, according to your Lord- 

^Feilden MSS. "^ Supra, No. X. 



104 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

ships orders, will March when relieved. Lord Sempill is at Aberdeen, 
and this day part of Brigadier Flemings Regiment march into this town ; 
yesterday the Troop at Stonehive was relieved. Tomorrow morning 
that Troop and the Troop from Aberdeen march Southward for their 
Grass quarters, I march with them ; for the conveniency of Quarters on 
the march only two Troops march at a time, which I hope your Lord- 
ship will aprove of. I shall, my Lord, spare no pains to get the men 
as well quartered as possible and as near to their Horses. 

Major Gardner, who went with L^ Lovat as far as Ferry-Bridge,^ 
begs to have your Lordships leave to remain some time in England ; if 
your Lordship gives leave he will be of use in providing Horses for us, 
and I shall, my Lord, take all the Care of the Regiment I can. 

I was extremely happy to read your Lordships letter to the Magis- 
trates of Aberdeen. I ever am with the greatest Respect, My Lord, 
Your Lordships 

Most Obedient and most Humble Servant 

ANCRAM. 

Montrose August 13th 1746. 



LXXVHL 

The Earl of Lauderdale to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Elgin August 13th 1746. 
My Lord, 

As ye Depute Shereifs of Edenburgh have at present by y^ 
want of Magistracy a good deall of the executive part of ye power of ye 
Magistracy etc. in the town of Edenburgh, I have directed Mr Maitland, 
who is one of my deputes there, to wait of your Lordship from time to 
time in order to give his asistance in any affair yt may come under his 

1 Lovat, who had been made prisoner by a detachment under Captain Millar, was brought 
into Fort Augustus on June 15. On July 20 he arrived at Edinburgh escorted by a party of 
Lord Mark Kerr's dragoons. On July 22 he set out towards London.— Sco^j Magazine, vol. 
viii., pp. 290, 342. 

^Feilden MSS. 




THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. IO5 

jurisdiction if your Lordship requires it. I have the Honour to be with 
the greatest respect your Lordships Most Obedient 

and Most Humble Servant 

E. of Albemarle. 

Endorsed: — A. 27th. 

LXXIX. 

Lord Sempill to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Aberdeen August 13th 1746. 
My Lord, 

I had the Honour off Your Lord^ps Letter of the gth, which 

was inclosd in Lord Ancrams packet, which I forwarded emiediatly to 

his Lordsp to Montrose. 

Your Lordsp may be asshured I will doe every thing in my pour to 
remove the misunderstanding that has happened betuixt Lord Ancram 
and the Civill pour hear.^ I only arived Last night, and I find y^ 
Provist is out of toun, but is exspected home to morow ore nixt day. I 
shall Lose no time in doing all in my pour to doe this affear away, but 
by what I can understand, they have taken it in their heads it was done 
with design to affrunt them and take the Sivill pour out of their hands, 
that it will not be in my pour to take it away, and that nothing will 
please them till it come before Your Lordsp and Lord Justice Clerk. I 
wish I may be mistaken. I shall make it my bussines to Live well 
with them and in obediance to Your Lord^ps Commands and give them 
all the assistance in my pour. I Return your Lord^p many thanks for 
inquiring after my health. I am still much trubled with the Gravell. 
I hop the Sess Pools will remove it in time. I begg Leave to most 
heartily wish all Health and Happiness to Your Lord^p, becawse I have 
the Honour to be, 

My Lord, 
Your Lordsps Most Humble and most 

Obedient feathfull Servant 

Endorsed :— A. 25th. SEMPILL. 

^Feilden MSS, 2 Supra, Nos. XXV.-XXVIL, LVH. 

O 



I06 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

LXXX. 

The Secretary at War to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

His Majesty having been pleased to direct five General 
Officers, viz : Marshall Wade, Lord Tyrawley, Lord Cadogan, L. Gen. 
Foliott, and the Duke of Richmond, to enquire into the Conduct and 
Behaviour of S^ John Cope, Brig' Fowke, and Co^i Lascelles ; and S"^ 
John Cope and Brig^ Fowke having deliver'd in a List of several Officers 
now under Y' Lordships Command, who they desire may attend to give 
their Testimony; I have the Honour, by H.R.Hss's Command, to 
inclose to Your Lordship a Copy thereof, and to desire your Lordship 
would give immediate Orders that the Officers mention'd in the said 
List do repair to London with all possible Expedition, so that they may 
arrive here by the first Day of the next Month, on which Day the 
General Officers abovenam'd have appointed to meet and proceed on 
this Enquiry.^ 

I am, ^yith the greatest Respect, 
My Lord, 
Your Lordship's Most Obedient and Most Humble Serv* 




'^f^^ 



War Office 
August 13, 1746- 
Endorsed : — A. 23rd. 



(Enclosure.) 



A List of such Officers as Sir John Cope and Brig^ Gen' Fowke 
pray may be order'd to attend the General Officers appointed by His 

1 Feilden MSS. 

2 A full report of the inquiry is in The Report of the Proceedings and Opinion of the Board 
of General Officers on their Examination into the Conduct of Sir jfohn Cope (Lond., 1749). The 
three officers were honourably acquitted on October 8, 1746. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., 
p. 522. 



tHE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. t07 

Majesty to enquire into their Conduct in Scotland at and before the 
Battle of Preston Pans, and are now in North-Britain. 

Major Mosman of Col. Lee's Regiment. 

Lieut. Col. Whitefoord of Col. Cockran's Marines.^ 

Major McKay of Major Gen^ Oglethorpe's. 

Major Paterson ^ r xt • » ta 

•* 1- 01 Naizon s Dragoons. 

Quarter Master Kerr J 

Cornet Cowse of Hamiltons Dragoons. 



LXXXI. 

Robert Finlay to Alexander Campbell.^ 

Hond S', 

I saw yours to Pro. Cockran, and in Obedience thereto, 
annex'd is Acco^ of Shoes furnished the Army by me on the Sundry 
orders of S^ Everard Fawkener ; ^ and before he left Fort Augustus I had 
by Express Sent me an unlimited one for furnishing the Army, always 
advising the Commander of his Majesties Forces in chief for the time 
being, to Gett orders from him where to Send them, and accordingly 
Munday was 14 d^ I wrote his Excellcy the Rt Honble the Earlof 
Albemarle what I had ready, but as I have had no answer, I Suppose 
his Excell^y is removed from Fort Augustus, and this acco^ ye are to 
forward him. I hope youll be so very good as to let him know So 
much, as I wait his Excell^ys Commands. 

If in any thing I can be serviceable to you here, in purchasing and 
forwarding any Goods this Countrey can serve you in, be assured I will 
do my outmost for your Interest, or any youll recommend me. Pray 
make my Complem^s Acceptable to Mr Jo. MacLachlan, and tho 
uneaquainted, I am w^ profound Respect, Hon^ S^, Your Most Obed* 
Humble Serv^ 

ROBERT FINLAY. 

Glasgow 13th Augst 1746. 

To The Honble Governour Alexr Campbell Esqr of 

Fort William. 

^ He was taken prisoner at Prestonpans. His letters and papers are in The Whitefoord 
Papers (Oxford, 1898). 

" Feilden MSS. » Infra, No. LXXXVL (Enclosure). 



108 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

LXXXII. 

The Earl of Ancram to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I have this minute the honour of your Lordships, and beg 
pardon for sending a letter without date. I yesterday writ your Lord- 
ship an account of the affair complain'd of by the Dragoons against 
Major Chabane, so shall not trouble your Lordship with a repitition. I 
could not, my Lord, get any information to clear up the Complaints 
against Captain Hamilton, as the Complainers make all their applica- 
tions directly to Lawyers at Edinburgh. 

My Lord, sometime before His Royal Highness went from the 
Army, I had orders to take in the Arms that had been lent to the Town 
volunteers, and that they were to make good any that were lost or 
spoil'd, I accordingly Call'd for them and put them into the Fort. 

The Rebels ^ got away from a Crick three miles South of Peterhead 
where the Boat had been carry'd under pretence of fishing. I put the 
Boats immediately under the same restraint formerly done till I should 
have your Lordships Commands how to act. The Magistrates do me 
great unjustice to Complain of me. I do assure your Lordship I always 
did all in my power to prevent any disorders or disputes between the 
Soldiers and Towns people. I own, my Lord, that I was always very 
Strict with relation to the Shipping, which highly offended the town ; 
but I am persuaded had I not been so, many Rebels had made their 
Escape ; if I am so fortunate as to meet with your Lordships appro- 
bation I shall be happy believing that I have done my Duty ; so far 
I have the honour to assure your Lordship that I have all along 
endeavoured to do my duty and shall ever make that my chief study. 
I have, my Lord, had a most troublesome time with them, but have 
always to the best of my understanding strictly persisted in obeying a la 
lettre the orders give me. I confess that had I even had leave to grant 
indulgence that I should not have done it without an order. I find few 
that I have had to do with in this country so well affected to merit any 

^FeildenMSS. 

^This seems to refer to the subject mentioned in Lord Ancram's letter of August 6, 
supra, No. XLIX. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. IO9 

favour from any of His Majestys Servants, of which when I have the 
honour to see your Lordship I shall give several instances. 

The Magistrates have also Complain'd to the Lord Justice Clerk ^ 
that I have taken up two men who had been baild in one hundred 
pounds by the Managers of Aberdeen. I send your Lordship inclosed a 
Copy of the accusation which was given to me by Supervisor Thomson, 
who tells me that part of the Crimes laid to their Charge has been 
found out Since they have been admitted to Bail. 

I had yesterday the honour to acquaint your Lordship that as the 
Troops at Stonehive and Montrose were relieved by part of Brigadier 
Flemings Regiment, that the said Troops were to march to their Grass 
quarters in order to make room for the other Dragoons as they come 
thro' those towns when relieved, and as I have transmitted your 
Lordships orders to the Several Regiments of Dragoons, and Lord 
Sempill being at Aberdeen, I marched with them, both which I think 
are agreable to your Lordships Commands. I should. My Lord, be 
grieved in the smallest article to misapprehend your Lordships orders, 
and therefore lest I should be guilty of any mistake, I consulted with 
Officers who were of oppinion that it is what your Lordship will approve 
of. I propose to view our Grass Quarters immediately, unless your 
Lordship Should have any other orders for me ; whatever they may be 
shall be chearfully done, as is my duty, and as I have a very Great 
pleasure and real satisfaction in obeying any Commands coming from 
Your Lordship. I have the honour to be with the greatest respect, 
My Lord 

Your Lordships 

Most Obedient and most Humble Servant 

Arbroath ANCRAM. 

August 14th 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. 15th. 

(Enclosure.) 

Information against Andrew Walker and Walter Nicol. 

In the month of November or December last, Andrew Walker, 
Merchant in Aberdeen, came to William Man, Officer of excise, when he 
was walking at the Cross of Aberdeen, and said to Mr Man, "What 

1 No. LVII. supra. 



no THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

have we to do with King Georges Beagles here ; I thought none of them 
now would have dared to Show their faces, we will now be well free of 
Gagers." 

About the Same time the Said Andrew Walker and Walter Niccol, 
Merchants in Aberdeen, went on board a Ship with french Colours 
blowing, while She was coming into the harbour of Aberdeen with part 
of John Drummonds Regiment,^ came on shoar with french Officers, 
and upon their landing join'd them with a Huza, their hats waving 
in their hands. The said Andrew Walker and Walter Niccol voluntarily 
went up upon the Cross of Aberdeen and joind the Rebels at reading the 
Manifestos and drinking treasonable healths. 

The above facts will be proved by Several Witnesses ; 

their names are transmitted to the Lord Justice Clerk. 

JOHN THOMSON. 

Lxxxni. 

The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Fort Augustus August 14th 1746. 
My Lord, 

The Master of Lovat Surend'"'! himself last night to me 
hear ; ^ he talks as if he were very sensible of the Crime he had comitted, 
and I find what prevented his surendering sooner was an apprehension 
of being asked to inform again his Father ; the thing is so unnatural that 
I dont imagine how its come into his head, but I believe this was the 
case. I am now sending to Aquaint Gen. Bleakny. 

The wind still prevents us from bringing any supplies from Inver- 
ness, of which we stand in great need. This goes along with the Party 
who sett out to bring up your Str[a]glers. I wish your LoP a good March 
and better Weather, and am with great Respect 

My Lord 
Your Lordships Most obedient humble Servant 

LOUDOUN. 
To The Right Honble 
The Earl of Albemarle. 
Endorsed : — A. 25th. 

^ Lord John Drummond landed detachments at the ports between Montrose and Peter- 
head on November 22, 1745.— Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 27. 

2 Feilden MSS. =* Cf. Lord Loudoun's letter of August 10, supra, No. LXV. 



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LXXXIV. 

Major-General Blakeney to THE Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness 15th August 1746. 

My Lord, 

I received the honour of your Lordships letter Dated the 
I2th Instant, and all the Articles therein mentioned shall be punctually 
obeyed to the utmost of my power. 

I should not have mentioned the Sixteenth Article of the Act of 
Parliament had not your Lordship Ordered me to insist upon it in your 
letter of the ist Instant ; and upon perusing that Act I found it referred 
to the Laws that were in force before the Union, and knowing that the 
Scotch had borrowed many of their customs from the French, I was in 
hopes to be informed of that Law's being more in our favour than the 
English act is, which made me desire to have it explained, I being an 
utter Stranger to it. 

A Party and Carriages to bring the Sick hither from the Louchend, 
and Bread to Supply the Sick men left at Fort Augustus have been pro- 
perly sent, but we can get no account of the Galley. Some impute it 
to the Contrary winds which have blown very hard, and others to the 
Master's loving Drink too much. 

Lord Lewis Drummond ^ proposes now going to Carlisle by Land, 
the Glasgow Man of War not being arrived, and when it does, the un- 
certainty of getting a ship to carry him to Newcastle, togeather with his 
money begining to fall short, are the reasons he gives for going by Land. 
By the Complaints I have already had of the want of Firing I apprehend 
very much that we shall pass our time very dissagreeably here this 
Winter. 

Inclosed is the Return of the Rebel Prisoners here, and I cannot 
get any other Crimes nor the Names of the evidences than what are 
anexed to the Names of the Prisoners, tho' all those particulars were 
demanded by the officers on Guard who received them, and the circum- 

1 Feilden MSS. 2 q/. his letter of August 4, supra, No. XXXII. 



112 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

stances of Affairs would not permit us to refuse taking them into 
Custody as usual. 

Just now an account is brought to me that the Galley is arrived. 
I am with great Respect 
My Lord 

Your Lordships 
Most humble and most obedient Servant 

WILL BLAKENEY. 
Rt Honble the Earl of Albemarle. 
Endorsed : — A. 26th. 



LXXXV. 

The Secretary at War to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

War Office 15th August 1746. 

My Lord, 

Having lay'd before His Majesty the Proceedings of a 
General Court Martial held at Sterling the 23d Day of July last; for 
the Tryal of Lieut. Charles Elphinston of an independent Company in 
that Garrison, for Misbehaviour upon Duty, Disobedience of Orders, 
abusing General Blakeney, and making away with Amunition ; As also 
for the Tryal of Ensign Orrock of Lord Sempill's Regiment for Neglect 
of Duty. 

I have the Honour to transmit to your Lordship the proceedings of 
the said Court Martial (which should have been sent to Your Lordship, 
as being more imediately within Your Department), and am Comanded 
to acquaint Your Lordship that His Majesty hath been pleas'd to con- 
firm the Sentence of the said Court Martial, by which the said Lieut. 
Elphinston is found guilty of a Breach of the 6th Article of War and 
adjudg'd to be suspended for Six Months ; and to approve of the Courts 
Opinion in acquitting him of the other three Accusations brought against 
him. 

His Majesty is likewise graciously pleas'd to approve of the Opinion 

1 Feilden MSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 1 13 

of the said Court Martial, in thinking Ensign Orrock's long Confine- 
ment is a Sufficient Punishment for the Neglect of Duty he stands 
charged with. 

I am with the greatest Respect, 

My Lord, 
Your Lordship's Most Obedient and Most Humble Serv' 

H. FOX. 

Rt. Hon. Earl of Albemarle Comander in chief of His Majesty's 
Forces in North Britain. 
Endorsed : — A. 23d. 



LXXXVL 
Robert Finlay to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

In Consequence of the Orders I had from Sir Everard 
Fawkener, I presum'd to write Your Excellency the 18th past, for 
direction^ to forward the Shoes then made and as got ready. 

I Still wait the Same, My Lord, and would not Troubled you with 
this, had not Governour Alexr Campbell of Fort William wrote Provost 
Cochran, and which reached him Munday last, for a Copy of the Acco* 
of Shoes, Sent from this, to be Transmitted to your Excell^y, which 
ye have anex'd, and another I sent him. 

By which your Excell^y will Nottice there's no more due me 
than the parcell Sent the 17th past. That other Sent Since to Fort 
W™ to Capt. Scot being paid by his draught on Mr Whitefoord, and 
anent which Shoes, as he writes me, he advis'd your Lo'^sp on receipt 
of them. 

As any Shoes I may be allowed to provide for the Army Shall be 
well worth what I charge, and Shall Strictly adhere to my Orders, So 
I beg your Excell^ys Patronage, and to Confirm my Order of the 17th 
of June for furnishing the Army. 

Nothing in my Power Shall be wanting to prevent Fraud being 

1 Feilden MSS. 
P 



114 



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Impos'd on the Army, tho' some few may do my outmost, but they Shall 
be Inconsiderable, and allow me My Lord to Subscribe my Self 
Your Excellencys 

Most Obedient and Most hu^le Servt 

ROBERT FINLAY. 
Glasgow 15 Augst 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. Sept 2d. 



(Enclosure.) 

Account of Shoes furnished to the Army by the Order of the Honble 
Sir Everard Fawkener, from the 30th day of May to the 3d day of July 
both 1746, by Robt ffinlay in Glasgow, viz : 





No of Double Chand Single Chand Shoes at Shoes at Shoes at 


Shoes at 


Dates when sent 


horse Pumps Pumps 48d 44d 42d 


36d 


to Inverary 


Loads at 6 Shils at 54d 


Ammots of Value 
£ Sh d 



1746 May 


30 


5 


30 




168 




330 


192 


129 3 





June 


5 


3 


24 
and 6 at 5/6 




194 




84 


64 


71 19 







9 


2 


24 


48 


96 




18 


84 


52 19 







13 


3 


24 


12 


262 




48 


50 


78 4 







17 


2 


9 


13 


192 


16 


20 


14 


52 II 


2 




20 


2 






243 


15 


6 




52 8 







25 


3 


18 
and 6 at 5/6 


24 


308 


8 


6 


6 


79 9 


4 


July 


2 


3 




2 


381 


13 


... 




79 


8 




23 


141 


99 


1844 


52 


512 


410 


595 14 


2 


Cash paid for 46 bags, 


and Carriage of 23 Loads 


; to Inverary - 


- 


- 


19 7 





Cash paid tc 


) Mr. 


John Campbell in Inverary for 


Carriage 


to Dunstaffnage, 


and 






for Boat freights from thence to Fort William - 


- 


- 


- 


10 15 


10 



£625 17 o 



The above sum of ;f 625 17 o, I had His Royal Highness Warrant 
for, and was paid me by Anthony Sawers Esqr at Edinbr the 
23d July in bills on London, at my request 



£54 


5 


1 


55 


8 


9 


;£io9 


13 


lO 


55 


8 


9 


£54 


5 


I 



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Acco' of Shoes furnished from 3d July last to the Army, viz : 

1746 July 17 Two loads qt 262 pairs at 4/- with Charges to Inverary - 

28 Two Loads . . 262 .... at ., with Charges to Fort William - 

Augst 13 Received of above Two parcells Capt Caroline Frederick Scot Esqr 
his draught on Allan Whitefoord Esqr at 10 days Sight for - - - 

Ballance owing Robt Finlay, beside Charge on First Parcell from Inverary to 
Fort William 

Glasgow 15 August 1746 Errors and Omissions 
Excpt by 

ROBERT FINLAY. 



LXXXVII. 

Colonel Naizon to Major-General Bland.^ 

Ayre i6th August. 

I got here yesterday with my Shatter'd Regiment ; this 
place will not hold them, but as soon as my Baggage comes from Stir- 
ling I propose moving one or two Troops ; as there is a rumour that we 
are to be found hard Meat by the Magazines I beg the favour of you to 
acquaint me, for it is time to Look about if wee are to provide our selves. 
I have another favour to ask, viz your opinion, if proper for me to ask 
Leave to go to London. I have business, and of Consequence, but I 
beg your Sentiments on that Score. I found a Deserter of mine at 
Carlisle Prison, who was stop'd there last Feby. on Suspicion of Deser- 
tion. I have brought him here and he is proper food for Pouder or Halter. 
I have an order from the Warr Office to Hold Gen^i Court Martials but 
shall not use it till approv'd by Lord Albemarle. I shall want the help 
of other Officers to Compose it. 

I beg you will acquaint my Lord that I dont know if the Camp ^ is 
broke up or not. 

This place by description sh'd have been the Elizian fields, but is 
in reality a Poor Miserable Dog Hole. 

The Country about it is good and pleasant, but the people Lazy, 
indolent, Proud, and of course miserable ; but I am told they have not 

1 Feilden MSS. ^ At Fort Augustus. It broke up on August 13. 



11-6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

had one man of the Country Joyn'd the Rebels, so much for their 
Creditt and in their praise. Excuse this trouble, and I am with 
Respect and the greatest regard, S^ 

Your obedient and most humble Servant 

PETER NAIZON. 

Endorsed : — A. 31st. 

LXXXVIII. 
The Magistrates of Aberdeen to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

We are honored with two of your Lordships Letters from 
Fort Augustus, relating to the unlucky Ryot that happened here the 
first of this moneth,^ and we begg leave once more to assure your Lord- 
ship that we most heartily regrate the thing, Especially that it was 
done by the officers and soldiers of His Majesty's troops, for whom we 
have a high value and esteem, looking on them as the Guardians of our 
Libertys. But when they transgress the Laws of the Land and com- 
mit a notorious breach of the King's peace, or doe anything to opress 
His Majesty's peaceable and Loyal Subjects wee humbly think they are 
not to be passed over with Silence. It's with no small reluctance and 
regrate that wee either complain of the Conduct of officers or Soldiers, 
or that wee should be obliged to apply the Law to them for any mis- 
demanor. Wee can scarcely Describ to your Lordship the atrociousness 
of the Ryot and the great Disturbance it was in the Town in the night 
time, by throwing of the stones and breaking of the windows, wounding 
the Inhabitants in their beds with the Stones, and intimidating all of 
them, as if the whole town had been to be destroyed. 

If it had been only a few panes of Glass that had been broke, as 
your Lordship is pleased to Insinuat, neither we nor any of the In- 
habitants would have taken the least notice of it. But there were many 
hundreds of panes broke, and upwards of two hundred familys have 
suffered on this occasion. Notwithstanding whereof, the officers prin- 
cipally concerned doe not at all seem sensible of their trespass, nor 
show any Inclination to make atonement for the Ryot, or Reparation 

1 Feilden MSS. ^ Supra, Nos. XXV.-XXVH. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. ny 

for the Damages, But on the contrary show all marks of Resentment as 
well against the Magistrates as the Inhabitants, However, at Your 
Lordship's desire wee have sisted procedure untill ye have an oppor- 
tunity of conversing with my Lord Justice Clerk on this Subject, and 
shall be heartily glad if any happy proposall shall be made for accom- 
modating the affair in an amicable way consistent with the honor and 
peace of the Town and repairing the Damages, as none desire more to 
live in peace and harmony with the Kings troops than wee doe. "Wee 
begg leave to observe to your Lordship, that so farr as we can learn, 
there were no illuminations the first of this moneth in any town of 
Scotland, and if wee had thought it anyways necessary, or had it been 
customary, wee would not have failled of our Duty on that Occasion. 
As none wish better to the present happy setlement than wee doe, and 
there was no Illuminations in Town that night, nor any intended to be 
untill bystanders heard Captain Morgan give orders to Sergeant Wilson 
and the party to break the windows, That thereupon some of them run 
thro the town, and told their acquantances that if they did not put up 
lights their windows would be broke. Yea the Tavern where the officers 
were drinking was not Illuminate till after a great many windows were 
broke. 

Wee have had the Honor of talking to Lord Semple on this affair, 

who regrates it much and earnestly wishs it may be setled amicably. 

Wee hope to live in great peace and friendship with him. Wee 

wish every thing that is good and agreeable to your Lordship, and have 

the Honor to be with great Esteem 

My Lord, 

Your Lordships most faithfull and 

obedient humble Servants 

JAMES MORISON Provost. 

WILLIAM MOWAT Bailie. 

WILLIAM GORDON Baillie. 

JAMES NICOLL Baillie. 
Ab<in i6 August 1746. 

Endorsed : — A, Sept 4th. 



Il8 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

LXXXIX. 

Colonel Wilkinson to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I take the Liberty to Introduce to your Lordship And 
recomend to your favour the bearer, Sir John Hall, as a Gentleman 
most zealously well affected to His Majtys Person and Government, 
and for whom I have a particular regard, both as a near Relation and 
in all respects a Worthy honest Man, And therefore think it Unneces- 
sary to trouble your Lordship with Any Apologies for this freedom. 

Your Lordship knows how S"" W'" Yonge treated the Guards at 
his quitting the War Office. I have Inspected and Methodized the 
Accounts of Every Company in the three Regts and Laid Such a State 
of the whole before H.R.H. as highly pleased him, and determin'd him 
to push for Redress. 

Mr Fox and Mr Pitt are in a few days to attend the Duke upon it. 
And I am also orderd to attend and Make good my State, which I 
think I am able to do, to the Conviction of any reasonable Understand- 
ing person. 

I am. My Lord 

Your Lordships Most Obed* and 

Most humble Serv* 

J. WILKINSON. 
London Augt i6th 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. 27th. 

XC. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Wright to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Dundee Augst ye 17th 1746. 
My Lord, 

I have the Honour to aquaint your Lordship that I arriv'd 
here yesterday from Carlisle with the Detachment of Major Gen" 
Hamiltons Dragoons which had been orderd thither by H.R.H. 

1 Feilden MSS. 



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119 



I have been inform'd that Lord George Sackvilles Regiment is to 
Quarter here, and the town not being able to accomodate both Corps, 
I take the liberty to entreat your Lordship to suffer us to Quarter at 
Couper, St Andrews, and Kirkaldy, towns in Fife not far distant from 
each other, and most contiguous to our Grass Guards. 

As I was a Stranger to your Lordships being so near, I wrote Lord 
Sempill yestarday on the same Subject, who will I presume apply to 
your Lordship. 

I am prevented waiting on your Lordship by an accident which 
I met with in the highlands some weeks ago when on party there. 

I beg leave to assure your Lordship that I am with great Respect, 
My Lord 

Your Lordships Most obedient and most humble Serv^ 

JM. WRIGHT, Lieut Collo. 
Endorsed : — A. 17th. 

XCL 

Major-General Bland to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Sunday 9 at night 

Stirling 17th August 1746. 
My Lord, 

I have this Moment the Honour of Your Lordships of this 
date from Perth. The two Companies of the Royal shall March thro' 
Perth in their way to Couper in Fife, pursuant to your orders ; but as 
Capt. Thomson who Commands them is gone with the Rebells to Car- 
lisle, and has 15 men of those Companies along with him, the Review 
will be but imperfect, and Oblige Colonel Ramsay to go afterwards to 
their Quarters. 

. Mr Masterton has settled the Quarters for General Barrells Regt 
at Linlithgow and Boristheness, which are near one another, likewise 
those at St Ninians for two Companies, where they will be very well, 
and three Companies at Allowa ; the other 15 Companies are to be in 
this Town. Won't it be proper that Prices Majors should go with the 
three Companies to Allowa ? As soon as the Men have got their New 

1 Feilden MSS. 



OO THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Cloaths fitted to them, a Detachment of 60 or 70 Men may be Sent 
from hence to Down, and another Detachment of 50 Men to Dumblain, 
as the Country Round those Towns are very disaffected, and may either 
Hide the Rebells or Supply them with Provisions, if we have no Troops 
there to prevent it. 

1 hope your Lord^p will do me the Honour to Dine with me on 
tuesday ^ and to bring Your Company with you. I can promise You 
nothing but a Military Dinner, according to M. G. Howards Phrase, we 
being too far from Barnads to have any Dainties. Dinner shall be 
ready by two ; but if You would have it Sooner or latter, be pleased to 
Send a Servant forward and Your Orders shall be punctually Obey'd. 
If M. G. Husk comes with You I hope he will honour me with his 
Company. 

The Two Companies of the Royal, the two of Lord Sempils, and 
the Company of Leighs, March from hence on tuesday Morning, that 
this Town may be clear for the two Regiments ^ that come in. 
I remain with the utmost Respect, 
My Lord 
Your Lordships Most Obedient and most Humble Servant 

HUM. BLAND. 

To the Rt Honble the Earl of Albemarle etc etc. 

Endorsed : — A. 25th. 

XCH. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Earl of Albemarle .^ 

Edenbr i8th Aug 1746. 
My Lord, 

I have the Honour of your LoPs of the i6th from Blair, And 
it gives me the greatest pleasure to find that your LoP has so good ane 
opinion of me. I beg leave to assure you that it shall always be my 
greatest ambition to preserve the good opinion of so great a Judge by 
deserveing it, and doubt not that by your LoPs wise conduct, and your 

^ August ig. Lord Albemarle was on his way from Fort Augustus to Edinburgh. 

2 Conway's and Price's. . 'FeildenMSS, 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 121 

Authority over the Army, that the Countrey instead of complaining will 
in a little time become thankfull that they have so many Troops among 
them. 

I am glad Lord Ancram had so good Cause for Committing Walker 
and Nicol to Prison. But then I wish he had acquainted either them 
or the Magistrates with the Cause of Commitment, Because it would 
have prevented any Complaint, and if the men are innocent, the[y] would 
have had opportunity of bringing what Evidence they can for their own 
Justification, which they may now do, because I intend to acquaint the 
Magistrates of the Crimes they are Charged with, tho' not of the 
Informer.^ 

Your LoP may have probably Observed Several! Instances during 
this Rebellion of malicious people takeing that opportunity of revengeing 
their private Quarrells by giveing false Informations, and therfor tho' 
all Informations must be so far reguarded as [at] once to Secure the 
Person accused, yet unless it is Supported by Common Fame, or other- 
wayes. Justice requires that an opportunitie be given him of vindicateing 
himself. I am far from Suspecting that Mr Thomson's information has 
proceeded from any such Motive, Yet since the persons accused were 
men of Business the greater Caution was necessary. 

And for the Same reason I cannot give intire Credit to Mr Grants 
Complaint of Captain Morgan ; ^ both parties must be heard, and we 
must know what Evidence is offered to support it. And your LoP shall 
always find that nothing Shall be wanting on my Part that can 
contribute to assist your LoP to restore that Harmony between the 
Army and the Countrey that ought alwayes to Subsist amongst all the 
True freinds of our Happy constitution. 

I am glad that the Master of Lovat has Surrendered. I heartily 

wish that all His Majestys Ennemys were in his Power, that the 

incorrigible might feel the weight of his Justice, and the others be 

liveing Monuments of his Mercy and Clemency. I have the Honour to 

be wt the Utmost respect 

My Lord 

Your LoPs Most Obedient and Most Humble Servant 

AND FLETCHER. 

iThe information against Walker and Nicol is printed s)</m, No. LXXXIL (Enclosure). 
^ Supra, No. LX. 

Q 



122 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

P.S. — As your LoP intends to be at Edenburgh on Thursday,^ I 
beg your LoP will do me the Honour to dine with me that day, and to 
bring your Company with you. Gen" Huske I hear is off the party ; he 
knows the way. I shall beg to know your LoPs Hour; any hour is 
equal to me, so I beg your LoP may not on that account come a 
moment Sooner than is convenient. 



xcin. 

LORI) SEMPILL to THE EARL OF ALBEMARLE.^ 

Aberdeen Augst i8th 1746. 
My Lord, 

I was honoured with your Lordsps Commands at Inverness 
and a List of Quarters for the Regts of Flemings and Dejeans, the Coppy 
of which I herewith Send Your LordsP. 

On My Arival here Co^l Jackson gave me a Letter from Co'l 
Watson inclosing a List of Quarters for those Regts, different from that 
I had receved from your LordsP, Frazerburgh being added to Dejeans 
Cantonment and Flemings fixd at Aberdeen and Montrose, five com- 
panies to Each Quarter; a Duplicate of Flemings Cantonment was 
likewise sent to Coll Jacksone with an Order to Send an oficor to 
Montrose to provide the Quarters mentioned for five Companies. Since 
that I receved a Second Letter from Coll Watson without date, telling 
me Dejeans Marchd that day, and that it was your Lordsps Orders I 
should cause five Companies of Flemings march Imediately to their 
Quarters at Montrose according to a former Route Your LordsP had 
Sent me. This, My Lord, Leaves me in the dark (with reason, as your 
LordsP may be pleased to Observe), whether Flemings is to be devided 
according to the first Cantonment or only five Companies at Montrose, 
and five at Aberdeen.^ Houever, that your Lordsps intention might 
not be disappointed by any mistake or Misapprehension, I have thought 
it necessary that the Regiment should Occupy thatt Cantonment by 

^August 21. ^Feilden MSS. 

* According to the official return of August 31 {infra, No. CLV.), Fleming's regiment 
was divided equally between Aberdeen and Montrpse, No part of Dejean's appears as 
quartered at Fraserburgh, 



The ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 12^ 

parties, tho not by Compys, as there is six cantonments and only five 
Compys at Montrose, till I am honored with your Lordsps pleasure. 

I wrote your Lord^p in my former Letter that I would doe all in 
my pour to take away this unhappy difference betwixt the Magistrates 
and this Reg^ and have done all in my pour with the Provost to take it 
away before it Come before your Lord^p, but have not as yet had his 
answer, which I shall transmite to You so soon as it comes to my hand. 
I am 

My Lord 

with great honour and Respect 
Your Lordsps 
Most obedient feathfuU Humble Servant 

SEMPILL. 

P.S. — I send your Lord^p Co^^ Jacksons Return, what number of 
officers and men are at Each place. 
Endorsed : — A. 23rd. 



XCIV. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Jackson to Major Roper.^ 

Aberdeen Augst the i8th 1746. 

Dear Roper, 

I Received your's of the 9th from Fort Augustus, The 
Recruiters shall set out immediately ; the necessary delay on account 
of the Companies March and settling will I hope plead my pardon for 
three or four days. 

Do me the favour to present Lord Albemarle with my Compliments, 
and assure His Lordship I will do whatever can depend on me to pre- 
vent these wrong headed people coming to Extremities. You judge 
right that Lord Sempill's wisdom and prudence will consolidate affairs, 
I don't know any body who promises better. 

Lord Sempill writes by this Post to have a mistery of two different 
Routes clear'd up. 

1 Feilden MSS. 



124 'i'HE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

I must trouble you to adjust an affair that was understood here to 
be of little Consequence, and the method I took right ; but as the Com- 
missary for bread has been and is of a different opinion, The case is : 
When the Reg*^ first came to this place Lord Ancram order'd me to 
march into the hills with One hundred of our people and Two of Lord 
Loudon's. Our's were out where I Posted them a month, and Loudon's 
remain'd at their Posts till within these few days. As there was no 
possibility of getting bread in the hills, or indeed meal without a good 
deal of management, I was forced to fall on some scheme for the men. 
As Loudon's were divided into lesser bodies they found no incon- 
veniency, but our's Continued together, and either must have bread or 
could not remain where they was. His Royal Highness had these 
Posts reported and approved it. I tried in vain to have the men fur- 
nished regularly with bread from the town's baker, and therefore was 
obliged to make use of some sacks of the King's flower here in store. 
An exact ace* was kept of what was taken with a sort of Clerk belonging 
to that branch, and the Expence attending the making it into bread 
kept by the quarter master ; the men had it deliver'd every four days 
the whole time they were out. And I concluded that when I sent the 
Commissary this account it would be received without other difficulty, 
and charged as other bread is, deliver'd to the soldiers ; but Mr Gomes- 
serra wrote me t'other day to tell me I had no right to take this flower, 
and that I must pay for it, and that by no less than the Dukes orders. 
He wrote this to me once before, and I told him in answer the whole 
seemed a mistake, as His Royal Highness had not been informed how 
this flower had been made use of. The men's stoppages is in the q^ 
m^s hands and shall be paid to the Commissary's order. I hope in God 
My Lord Albemarle will not let me be saddled with an Expence when 
it's the plainest demonstration I could mean nothing but the King's 
service, which without this very thing could not have been carried on. 
Lord Ancram knows this affair, and our whole Reg^ ; if I pay the money 
I shall be call'd Colonel four days and laugh'd at for ever. 
I am/ 

Dear. Roper 

Your most Obedient Servant 

GEO JACKSON. 

Endorsed : — A. 25th. 



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XCV. 

The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Fort Augustus August i8th 1746. 

My Lord, 

I send you inclosed the Coppy of a Letter ^ I receved from 
Simon Eraser, commonly called Master of Lovat. 

He was prevented from coming before your LoP left Fort Augustus 
by the swelling of the Rivers, bot came to me the evening after your 
LoP Marcht from thence,^ 

I think it my Duty to aquaint your LoP that in all the conversa- 
tions I have had with him he showes great remorse and repentance for 
his past behavior, And that his Surender now was intirely Volluntary 
and not from any Nessesity he was drove to by any Partyes after him. 
He has desired that I may Aquant your LoP that he has great hopes 
from your LoPs Goodness, that you will represent him to the King in 
as favorable a light as your Duty to his Majesty will allow. 

His great desire to have been at Fort Augustus before your LoP 
left it prevented him from being able to collect and bring in several 
people who Acted as Officers among the Rebells, but whom I under- 
stand still intend to follow his example. 

I have aquanted M. G. Bleakeny of his surender and that he had 
beged to be keept at Fort Augustus 'till your LoPs pleasure was known, 
which the General has agreed to. 

I beg your LoP will send Directions to the General how I am to 
behave to such as have Acted as Officers and come to Surender. I 
persave they are in hopes to be treated as those were that Surendered 
to M. G. Campbell ; if that were to be the case to the Low Ranks of 
them, I think you would have the whole immediatly. 

I have had two letters from Barasdel * of no great import, and 

1 Feilden MSS. 2 Qf August 10, snpra, No. LXIV. 

'August 14. He remained a prisoner at Fort Augustus till the end of September. 

* Barrisdale had submitted to the Duke of Cumberland in June, 1746, and to Albemarle 
before the latter left Fort Augustus on August 13. (Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 287, 393.) 
He had, in the meanwhile, joined the Prince in July (Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 99) and escaped 
with him to France in September. 



t26 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Orders are gon in the Words I receved them for Partyes to Vissit him 
and his parts of the Country. I am with great Esteem and Reguard, 

My Lord 

Your Lordships 
most obedient humble Servant 

LOUDOUN. 

Endorsed : — A. 25th. 

XCVL 
Colonel Borland to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I was Honour'd with Y^ L^ps Letter two days ago, the 
Account of whose Welfare was unspeakable Pleasure to me. I have 
the Satisfaction to acquaint Y^ L^P that the Hospital goes on well, and 
daily gives more Satisfaction to the Officers, whom I doubt not will 
soon see it very serviceable both to the men and themselves. 

I do assure Y^ L^^P that no thing shall be wanting in me to pro- 
mote the Good and the Welfare of the Regiment in every particular to 
the utmost of my power, and be as much with it as I can, since Y^" L'^P 
does me the Honour to repose a Confidence in me. But as my family 
is in the Island, and Workmen about my Castle, it will be very detri- 
mental to me if I dont return thither for some time after my Months 
Waiting is over. 

My Nephew Trelawny came to Town two days ago, and I am 
getting him equipp'd with every thing to prepare him to do Duty. 

Pole's Commission is sign'd as Cap* and he is in Treaty with a 
Young Gentleman, who has an Estate in Oxfordshire, with a good 
Character, for his Commission ; his Name is Herritage Lenten, and 
was an officer in the Oxfordshire Regim*. He is Tall, young and 
Lusty, and I believe to morrow or next day affairs between them will 
be so far concluded that I may give his Name to Mr Fox, who will get 
out the Commission as soon as possible, I having Orders from H.R.H. 
as well as Y"" L,^? to direct him so to do, which he has promis'd me shall 
be done. 

Yr Ldp will see by this Return all the Vestry men discharg'd, but 

1 Feilden MSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 1 27 

I fear we shall not make any great increase of Recruits before Winter, 
altho I have several Serges out, besides the officers and the Sergts 
attending them. We have according to Order given in an Account 
signed by each Capt. of the Charges they have been at for Recruiting 
since vi^e came from Flanders, and the 2d Battalion from the time of 
their sending us a Reinforcement to Flanders. We hope by H.R.Hss's 
Assistance the Balance will be allowed us, otherwise God knows how 
we shall recruit. Y' L^P is much wanted to be an Advocate for us. 

We have, my L^, no sort of News stirring, but the late very good 
from Italy, which I presume Y^ L^P have had a full account of ; next to 
Culloden it has given His Majesty the greatest Joy he has felt a great while. 

This day at noon the Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino were 
Beheaded. I know no more but that tis said the former dyed very 
decently, and the latter as indecently.^ 

Old Lovat came safe to the Tower a few days ago. 

I believe I have tyred Y' L«lp, therefore will say no more, but the 
Coldstream is as well as their Neighbors in every respect, and I beg 
leave with the sincerest Gratitude to subscribe my self. 

My Lord 
Yr Ldps most Humble and most Oblidg'd Serv* 

H. BORLAND. 

Park Street i8th August 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. Sep* 4th. 

{Enclosure.) 

The Return given by me to His Majesty of the Seven Battalions of 
Guards last Saturday stood as follows 

f ist Batt. - - - - 761 men 
First Regimt | 2 Do. - - - - 582 

[3 Do. - - - - 675 

' Second Regimt ( ^^^ . - - - 749 

1 2 - . - - 725 

Third Regim. {^ ] ! ! .' 706 



Vestry men all discharg'd. 
N.B. ist Batt. of ist consists of lo Companys. 

1 Cf. Foster's account of their behaviour, in Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 4^9 «^ ^-f?- 



128 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

XCVII. 
Captain Powell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

When I last had the honour of seeing your Lordship att 
Fort Augustus you was Pleas'd to give orders about a Doctor for this 
Place ; on my Arrivall here I found a Person who act'd as such, but a 
few days Past he told me itt was not in his Power to Supply the Men 
with Proper Drugs, his allowance being but Four Pounds Per Annum 
from Doctor Brown of Inverness, therefore desir'd me to represent itt to 
your Lordship. Our men are very Sickly and I am afraid I shall have 
the Misfortune of Burying Some of them in a very few days. I have 
already lost one of them. I have endeavour'd according to your Lord- 
ships orders to gett all the Intelligence that I Possible Could, but to no 
Purpose. 

The young Man that your Lordship has been Pleas'd to order to 
act as Barrack Master here (son of the Late Barrack Master) behaves 
himself extreamly well and bears a Generall Good Character from y^ 
Gentellmen of the Country, and iff Continued I beleive will Discharge 
his Duty to the Satisfaction of your Lordship. 

I hope, my Lord, you will excuse me takeing this Liberty, but I 
thought itt my Duty to acquaint your Lordship about the Doctor. I 
am, 

My Lord, 

with great Respect 

your Lordships 
Much Oblig'd and Most Obeidant Humble Servant, 

CRANFIELD SPENCER POWELL. 
Bernera Augst ye igth 1746. 

There is a Highlander here that has been Confin'd ever Since May 
last. 

Endorsed : — Bernera Augst igth 1746. 
A. 28th. 

^Feilden MSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 1 29 

XCVIII. 
Robert Finlay to Alexander Campbell.^ 

I Wrote you Last Week with the Acco* ye desir'd from 
Provost Cochran. 

And on Munday last I had the Right Hon^le the Earl of Albemarle 
his orders transmitted me by Major Roper, to forward to you whatever 
Shoes I had for the Army, and in Conformity thereto, have with this 
Sent to Mr John Campbell, Deputy Chamberlain to his Grace of Argyle, 
12 bags of Shoes to be forwarded to you directly. Invoice whereof is 
annex'd on other Side, Amount with Charges to ;^i78 14., 11. 

I shall be Infinitely oblig'd to you, that when they come to hand, 
youll either Signify the Same to his Excell^y of Albemarle, or to Major 
Roper, and at Same time to be pleas'd to drop me ever So Short a Scrap 
acknouleging receipt. 

If in any thing whatever ye Shall please to lay your Commands on 
me I can Execute here, only please advise and let me know, and they 
Shall readilly be done by, S^ 

Your most obed* humble Serv* 

ROBERT FINLAY. 

Glasgow ig Aug. 1746. 

To The Honble 

Governour Alex"" Campbell Esq'' 
of Fort William 

w* bags of Shoes. 

(Enclosure.) 

Invoice of 12 Bags of Shoes Forwarded to Governour Alex^ Campbell 
Esqr of Fort William by the orders of the Right Hon^e the Earl 
of Albemarle Commander in Chief of his Majesties Forces in North 
Britain, by Rob* Finlay, viz*. 

1 Feilden MSS, 
R 



130 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

No 3 to 14 Eleven bags containing 66 doz. 
Eof A 

6 doz each of Shoes No 3 to 13 Included at 48/- £t^5& 8 o 
One bag No 14 containing viz^ 

3 doz 9 prs at 48/- ^£"900 

2 doz 3 prs at 44/- 4 19 o 



31 Bins of Tweedling for bags at 8d 
Making 12 do. and Twine 
Carriage 6 loads to Inverary at 11/- 
Do To Dunstaffnage at 4/2 
Boat freight to Fort W™ 



13 


19 





I 





8 





I 


3 


3 


6 





I 


5 








15 






£178 14 II 



Glasgow 19 Augst 1746. 

Errors and Ommissions Excepted by me 

ROBERT FINLAY. 

XCIX. 

Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness 20th August 1746. 
My Lord, 

Captain George Augustus Blakeney being willing to resign 
his Post of Quarter master to my Regiment to Robert Blakeney, a very 
promising young man, for whose Loyalty I will be answerable, I humbly 
desire that your Lordship will be pleased to write for a Commission for 
the said Robert Blakeney to be Quartermaster to the Regiment of Foot 
Commanded by me. 

I am with great Respect 
My Lord 
Your Lordship's most humble and most obedient Servant 

WILL, BLAKENEY, 
Rt Honbie the Earl of Albemarle. 
Endorsed : — A, 26th, 

1 Feilden MSS, 



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Captain Wilson to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I am desired by Lievt Gen'i Barrell to pray the favour of 
your Lordship that Lievt Joseph Higginson of his Regimt may be 
allowed leave of absence to come up here on some particular affaires. 
The General begs his Complem^s, and that your Lord^p would excuse 
his not writing himself, old age making his hand unsteady. I am With 
the greatest respect, My Lord 

yr Lordsps most Obedient humble Servant 

ALEX WILSON. 
Queenstreet Westm. 20th Aug* 1746. 

Rt Honble E. of Albemarle. 

Endorsed : — A. 28th. 



CL 

Lieutenant-Colonel Dunbar to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Foress Aug*^ the 20th 1746. 

My Lord, 

As the Regt^ is now well setled in their Quarters, I hope 
your L^ Ship will indulge me with leave to goe for England ; your 
favour in this will in a most particular maner Oblidge 

My Lord 
Your Lordships most humble and most Obed* Servant 

THO. DUNBAR. 

Endorsed : — A. 27th. 

1 Feilden MSS. ^ Ibid. ^ Mordaunt's. 



132 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

CII. 
Robert Finlay to Major Roper.^ 

Sir, 

Your fav^s of the 12th last post, the i8th, and in Obedience 
to the Commands given me, Yesterday I packd up and Sent off all the 
Shoes I had for the Army, Invoice of which I have anexd on other Side,^ 
amot. to ;^i78. 14. 11, with Charges to Fort W"^ added, which I always 
pay out. 

By the Copy of the Accot. I Sent on Friday last to the Right 
Honble the Earl of Albemarle, p"" order of Govern^ Alex^ Campbell of 
Fort W"i, containing all the Shoes furnishd the Army and Charges 
thereon, Youll please observe there's only owing me preceeding the 13th 
Curt., ^54. 5. I, and 15/- I have to pay for boat freight from Dunstaff- 
nage to Fort W"^, As Ive added now, is ^^56. o. i in all, £2^^. 15. o only 
due me to this day. 

The Chief reason for Troubleing you So soon with this, I have W"^ 
Rufane Esqr. his Letter to Provost Cochran before me, dated at Fort 
W™ the 13th Currt. a Copy of which is " Having Directions from Lord 
" Albemarle to take of the Shoes bespoke at Glasgow for the Army the 
" Number I have occasion for, for Brigade Houghton's Regm*, w^h I 
" have the honour to Command, I must desire y^ L^sp to Order 400 
" pairs to be reserved till our Paymaster call for them, who will be 
" at Glasgow in about a fourthnights time and will pay for them ". 

As this is a day too late, I beg of you to Acquaint Mr Mcghie, by 
whom this will be deliverd, if I am to have these Shoes ready ag^t the 
27th, if so I will do my outmost, that Coll. Rufane be not dissappointed. 

I Presume also to beg your Interest with His Excell^y of Albemarle, 
to Continue with me the Orders for furnishing the Army in North 
Britain I was Honoured with from his Royall Highness Duke Will'", 
on 17th June last, to be under the Directions always of the Comm<^r in 
Chief for N. Britain, whose orders I shall Punctually obey to an lotta. 
If further Recommendation were necessary, I presume I might Soon 
have his Grace of Argyles, but as I take it to be much presumption to 

^ Feilden MSS. ^Cf. No. XCVIIL (Enclosure), supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 13^ 

Trouble Such Great Men, I Entirely thro' my Self on your Patronage, 
and hope in a few Weeks to do my Self the Honour to wait on you at 
Ed'" if ye make So long Stay there, and Mean time I am with greatest 
Regard, S^, Your most Obed^ Humble Serv* 

ROBERT FINLAY. 
Glasgow 20 Augst 1746. 

Please direct for me Tanner in Glasgow. 

tho I keep 80 Shoemakers in a Manufactory continually making 
Shoes, and Imploy almost Constantly Double the Number in making 
Shoes for me, a Good many of w^ I export on my own Acco^ I pay 
above ;£'2ooo a Year for Duty on Tannd and Raw- hides as a Tanner. I 
can Provide the Army in better boots that any ever I saw them have at 
ig/- pr pair, tho Leather is now 25 p'" Cent dearer than some years agoe. 
One reason is, I have such a large Choice of ffine Leather. 

Endorsed : — A. Sepi" 2d. 

CHL 

Lord Sempill to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Aberdeen Aug* 21th 1746. 

My Lord, 

Since I have been hear, I have don My Self the Honour to 
write Your Lord^p three Letters, which I hop Your Lord^p has got. 

I have done all in my pour to take away this Misunderstanding 
betuixt the Majestrasts and the troops, and to doe the provost Justise 
he seems to be much inclind to it ; he was with me Yesterday and told 
me he had wrote Your Lord^p, and had Left it to Your Lord^p and 
Lord Justice Clerk to doe it away as your Lordships thought proper. 

I had a Letter from Co^^ Dejean Last night from Banff, with a 
Coppy of Your Orders to him, and I have sent him my Orders to give 
to all the officers posted allong the Coast, which if they take care to 
obay, will effectualy answer your Lord^p's Orders and Intentions. 

The Co'i writes that the toun is in Great want of fireing, there 
being no Boats allowd to go to the firth of Leath for some time. 

1 Feilden MSS. 



134 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Since I have been hear I have been Soliceted by Sir Allex Reed, 
Mr Duff of Halton, and by Mr Reed, who Each of them had a Son 
about Eighteen Years of Age printises In this place, and were unhappily 
Seduced to go with the Rebels to Inverurie ; ^ as the above Gentlemen 
are well affected to his Majesty and Government, So soon as they had 
an account of their having Joind thoas Rebels, they Emediatly Seazed 
them, which prevented them being any more concern'd. Your Lord^P 
will please observe they are younger Brothers and men off no Estate 
nor fortone. I would not give them any passes such as the Common 
Sort of Rebels gets till I know your Lord^ps pleasure about them. 

I have had Severall Letters from the officers off the Dragoons, who 
desired I would cawse Releave them, I mean thoas troops Quarterd at 
Glames and Other Inland Quarters. I wrote them I had your Lord^ps 
Orders only to Releave thoas upon the Coast in my District. 

Since the writeing the above, the provost has desired I would 
Order Co'l Jacksone to deliver over the Sarjant concernd in the Riot, 
as they call it. I told him that could not be done, as the Sarjant was 
upon Command, so his demmand could not be complyd with, as I am 
of opinion You doe not incline he should be given up. I have nothing 
more to truble Your Lord^p with, but that I am, 
My Lord, 

with Great Honour and respect 

Your Lordsps 

Most obediant and most feathfull Servant 

SEMPILL. 

Endorsed : — A. 23rd. 



CIV. 

Magistrates of Inverness to Major-General Blakeney.^ 

Honble Sir, 

It was incumbent upon us to have acquainted the Town 
Council with the demand extraordinary which you have been pleased to 

iQn December 23, 1745, Lord Lewis Gordon marched from Aberdeen and defeated the 
Laird of Macleod at Inverurie. 
^FeildenMSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. I35 

make on us, of affoording Coal and Candle for the Millitary guards. 
They find the demand unprecedented and that they are Legaly exempted, 
and besides, the quantity of 21 Stones Coals and 3I pounds Candle each 
night is an expence above what the Revenue of this Town can Support, 
and therefore the Council has not warranted us to comply with the 
demand. 

We are heartily willing to do every thing in our power for accomo- 
dating the Troops, and our readiness and Zeal for his Majestys Govern- 
ment and Service wants no new Teste. 

We are with great regaird and Esteem, Hon^ie Sir 

Your most obedient and most humble Servants 
JO. FRASER Provost. 
GILBERT GORDON Baillie. 
JAMES FRASER Baillie. 
JAMES KINNAIRD Baillie. 
Inverness 21st August 1746, 

A True Copy To The Honble William Blakeney Esq^ Major 
General Commanding His Majesty's Troops at Inverness. 



CV. 

The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness August 21st 1746. 
My Lord, 

I came hear with M. Gen. Bleakenys Aprobation to Sattal 
the Affair of the Meal with Mr Frigg, with whom I have had a Meeting 
this Morning. As he acts only as a Servant he can alter nothing in Mr 
Dundas's Orders, which are to Deliver the Meal hear at 8;^ Scales the 
Boll. In this situation I have receved 500 Bolls to prevent immediat 
wants till this affair can be satteled. 

I must trouble your LoP with a Remonstrance against this Affair 
continuing in this shape for many reasons ; First, the impossability of 
the Soldiers paying more than Ten pence the Peck for the Meal 
(delivered to him. Because his pay can not aford it, And that out of a 

1 Feilden MSS. 



136 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Stock from whence he was not furnished when it was worth the Money 
in the Country, Which it is not now, And as there is the apperance of a 
Great Crope, will be less so every day. 

And Secondly, the impossability of my making up an account of 
expence of Cariage and Delivery and Loss that may hapen in it, when 
Mr Dundas must have in his Accounts the same Articles for bringing of 
it hear. 

And thirdly, I beg to be relieved from a trouble. I know no 
Pressedent for any Commisary attempting to lay on an Officer To be his 
Agent and Clark and to run a Risk he does not do himself, and to take 
an imployment the other Affairs I have to do will not allow me to attend 
to as it ought. 

And lastly, I must beg if I am to have the trouble and Fatigue, the 
Soldier and not Mr Dundas may reap the benifiet of it in the Cheapness 
of his Provisions, that I may have something to answer to the Com- 
pleants I must expect from People in such Quarters as your LoP has 
seen. Unprovided in every necessary, particularly Bed or Beding for any 
one man. 

Mr Frigg has engadged to writ to Mr Dundas on this Subject 
to show the unreasonableness of his proposal. 

I shall return to Fort Augustus tomorrow, from whence I shall 
send your LoP a Return of the Officers on the Different Postes and the 
Situation of the Country since you left it. 

I am with great Respect, My Lord 

Your Lordships most Obedient humble Servant 

LOUDOUN. 

Endorsed : — A. 27th. 

CVL 

The Duke of Newcastle to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Whitehall, August 226. 1746. 
My Lord, 

I have received the Honor of Your Lordship's several 
Letters, The last of which was dated the 8th. Inst, since His Royal 

1 Feilden MSS, 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. I37 

Highness the Duke left Scotland, and have laid them all regularly 
before The King. And I have the Satisfaction to acquaint Your Lord- 
ship with His Majesty's entire Approbation of Your Conduct, and of 
Your Diligence and Attention in the Discharge of the important Trust 
committed to You. 

His Majesty having been pleased, some Days ago, to sign a Com- 
mission appointing Your Lordship Commander in Chief of the Troops 
in North-Britain,^ I conclude You w^ill receive the Same from Your 
Agent by this Express, if He has not already transmitted it to You. 
The King has been pleased to direct, That Your Lordship's Appoint- 
ments should be the Same, in every Particular, as Lieutenant General 
Hawley's were ; And I have acquainted the Secretary at War with His 
Majesty's Pleasure in this Respect. 

As It appears by Your Lordship's last Letter, dated the 8th Inst, 
That You was preparing to march to Edinburgh, And That You had 
ordered the Troops into Quarters, His Majesty doubts not but Your 
Lordship will dispose Them in such a Manner as may best secure the 
Peace and Tranquility of the Country ; And particularly in Those Parts 
where There is Most Reason to apprehend There may be a Disposition 
in the People to raise fresh Troubles. And Your Lordship will con- 
tinue to be very vigilant in preventing the Escape of the Pretender's 
Son, and of Such of the Principal Rebels as still remain in Scotland. 
And You will get the best Intelligence You possibly can, where the 
Pretender's Son may be lurking, and use Your utmost Endeavours to 
have Him Siez'd. 

The Rebellion being now happily suppress'd. His Majesty is of 
Opinion, That it is no longer necessary to keep up the Highland Com- 
panies that were raised upon that Occasion ; And Therefore It is His 
Majesty's Pleasure, That Your Lordship should give the proper Direc- 
tions for Reducing Those Companies. In doing which, You will take 
particular Care That the Officers of Those Companies, as well as the 
Gentlemen concern'd in raising Them, may be acquainted, That His 
Majesty is very sensible of the Zeal They have shew'd for His Service 
on this Occasion, But That the Rebellion being now suppressed. It is 
unnecessary to keep Those Companies any longer on Foot, as His 

1 Lord Albemarle's appointment was gazetted on August 23. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., 

P- 399- 

S 



138 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Majesty has already reduced The Regiments raised in England on the 
same Occasion. 

I am further to recommend it to Your Lordship, That You should, 
as far as may be consistent with the Welfare of His Majesty's Troops, 
post Parties of Them in the Hills, in such Manner as to prevent, as far 
as may be possible, the Stealing Cattle, or other Robberies and Out- 
rages. And if It should not be practicable to leave a Body of Regular 
Troops this Winter at Bernera-Castle,^ Your Lordship will give Direc- 
tions That a Detachment of Lord Loudoun's Regiment should be posted 
there. 

As there is Reason to believe That Aneas McDonald, The Banker, 
who was taken by Major General Campbel and is now a Prisoner in 
Dunbarton Castle, will be able to make many material Discoveries, It 
is His Majesty's Pleasure, That Your Lordship should give Directions 
for Conveying Him as soon as may be in safe Custody to London. And 
Your Lordship will give strict Orders to the Officer who shall be charged 
with the Care of this Person, That He be not permitted during His 
Journey to have any Conversation with any one whatever, or to write 
or receive any Letters.^ 

It having been represented to His Majesty, That It would be 
extremely for His Service That the Road from Dunbarton to the 
Western Isles should be compleated as soon as possible, His Majesty 
has ordered Me to recommend it to Your Lordship to give Directions, 
That the Soldiers that shall be quartered in that Part of the Country 
may be employ'd in finishing the said Road, as far as may be consistent 
with other necessary Services. 

I have the Pleasure to acquaint Your Lordship, That The Lord 
Justice Clerk has done great Justice to the Zeal, Attention, and 
Prudence which Your Lordship has shew'd in Making up the little 
Differences that have happen'd between the Troops and the Inhabitants 
of Some of the Towns in Scotland, wherein Both Parties may probably 
have been to blame. 

1 From the return of August 31 {infra, No. CLV.) a detachment of Houghton's regiment 
was established at Bernera. 

2 He had surrendered on May 13, 1746. He was indicted for high treason on July 3, 
1747, but his trial was postponed to the following December. Sentence of death was pro- 
nounced against him, and his execution was fixed for Ja,nuary 15, 17^8. Cf. Scots Magazine, 
vol, ix., pp. 345, 494, 602, 



TrtE ALBEMAFtLfe PAPfeRS. 



139 



I hope to have the Honor of hearing often from Your Lordship ; 
and beg You would be assured That I shall always be glad to receive 
Your Commands ; and That You may depend upon all the Assistance 
I can give You in Promoting the Success of the important Service on 
which You are employ'd ; and upon My best Endeavours to render it as 
easy and as agreable to You as possible. 

Your Lordship will have heard of the compleat Victory gain'd by 
the Army of His Majesty's Allies over the French and Spaniards in 
Italy ; ^ And I have the Satisfaction to acquaint Your Lordship, That 
His Majesty has great Reason to hope That the best Use will be imme- 
diately made of this great Success. 

Since Writing this Letter, I have received Your Lordship's of the 
I2th. Inst., which I have laid before the King. 

His Majesty has no farther Orders to send You but Those contained 
in this Letter ; Except that I have the King's Orders to acquaint You, 
That His Majesty entirely approves the Instructions His Royal High- 
ness The Duke left with You for Your Conduct, according to which It 
is His Majesty's Pleasure That You should continue to act ; And You 
may be assured That when His Majesty has any New Orders to send 
You, I will not fail immediately acquainting You with Them. 

I have acquainted H.R. Highness with what Your LordP has before 
mentioned, relating to the Cloathing of the Men and the bad Condition 
of the Tents, and I understand the proper orders are given thereupon. 
I am, with great Truth and Respect, 

My Lord, 
Your Lordship's Most obedient humble Servant 

HOLLES NEWCASTLE. 

Endorsed : — A. 28th. 

CVII. 

Major-General Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverary Aug*^ 22d 1746. 
My Lord, 

I was honour'd with your LordP^ Letter of the nth Inst, 
acquainting me with the bad success of the Party sent to Glendesserie.^ 

^ Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 387. ^Feilden MSS. 

■' Cf. Colonel Campbell's letter of August 10, supra, No. LXVL 



140 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

I stay'd with Commodore Smith in Horse Shoe Harbour 'till I heard of 
Col. Campbells being also return'd from that Expedition to Strontian. 
He met with much the same difficulty with the other party, but, how- 
ever, he contriv'd to be at the place appointed agreeable to the Order, 
where he stay'd one whole day and on His Return apprehended the 
Serjeant of Lord John Murrays Regiment which your LordP has order'd 
to Glasgow. I own it gives me some concern to find my Information ^ 
was so ill grounded, but I thought it my Duty to give your LordP what 
Intelligence I had, but you may remember I was not very sanguine in 
the Matter. 

The Party from Mull and that with Col. Campbell are return'd and 
dismist agreeable to your Orders, so that now there only remains 235 
Men of the Argyleshire Levies, a Return of which I send your LordP, 
with the reasons of their being kept in pay. 

As the Officers to whom I gave the King's Commission cannot 
properly be disbanded without His Majesty's Orders, therefore the 
extraordinary Expence is only the pay of the Private Men. 

In my Letter to S' Everard Fawkener of the 30th of July I 
mention'd the difficulties I was under for disbanding these Officers, but 
I am of Oppinion that it will be found necessary to keep some of the 
Argyleshire Independant Companies on foot some time longer; if His 
Majesty shall think this expedient the Men can be got together in a few 
days. 

I fully intended to have had the Honour of seeing your Lord^p as 
you past at Sterling, but the day after my Arrival at this place I was 
taken very 111 with Rheumatick Pains accompanied with a Fever, of 
which tho' I am much better, yet it has left such a lowness of Spirits 
upon me, that tho' I had several other things to mention to your LordP, 
I must for the present conclude by assuring you that I am 
My Lord 

Your Lordships most affectionate 

and faithfull humble Servant 

JOHN CAMPBELL. 

The Earl of Albemarle. 

Endorsed : — A. 23d. 

1 Cf. No. XXX. supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 141 

CVIII. 

Major-General Skelton to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Perth August 22d 1746. 
My Lord, 

I send inclos'd to your Lordship a Hst of the Prisoners in the 
Tolbooth here. 

I reviewd yesterday Gen^' St Clairs two additional Compys with all 
the care and assistance I could get of the Towns People. I found out 
one Mackenzie who had been amongst the Rebells ; inclos'd ^ is a Copy 
of His Confession and the Affidavits of two of the Townsmen taken this 
afternoon. 

I have orderd Watson, Smith, and Roy (who are mention'd in 
Mackenzies Confession) to be sent for Prisoners hither from Cowpar in 
Fife, whither they march'd too this morning. When they are Examin'd 
I shall send your Lordship an account of it. I should not have sent this 
account till I had perfected their Examinations, but as the Original one 
of Mackenzies will be sent this night to Lord Justice Clerk, your Lord- 
ship might think that I was guilty of a neglect by not acquainting you 
at the same time of it. 

I am, 

My Lord 
With great respect 
Your Lordships Most Obed^ Humble Serv^ 




Endorsed : — A. 25th. 

CIX. 

' Lord George Sackville to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Dundee August 22d 1746. 
My Lord, 

I have the honour to acquaint your Lordship that my Regi- 
ment march'd into this Town on Wednesday last ; * we were obliged to 
leave one man sick at Blair, and 3 at Dunkeld. 

1 Feilden MSS. - The document is not among the MSS. 

' Feilden MSS. * August 20. 



J42 THE Albemarle pApers. 

The detachment of a Captain and Fifty men at Cowper shall be 
relieved as soon as we can get that number Cloathed. 

Our Quarters fully answer our expectations, and the Magistrates of 
the Town do every thing in their power to accommodate us, so that I 
am persuaded your Lordship will not be troubled with Complaints from 
them or from us. 

No Person is sufferd to cross the water without a pass from some 
of the Magistrates, which as soon as he has signd, is brought to the 
Officer of the Guard that he may sign it likewise, otherwise our Centinels 
have orders to prevent their going into the Ferry boat, and no Ship can 
go out without giving security to the Collector, and a pass from him and 
the Commanding Officer ; these are the present regulations, if your 
Lordship pleases to make any alterations in them you will be so good 
as to order Major Roper to acquaint me with them. We have only 
eighteen prisoners to guard ; the rest are sent to England or releas'd by 
Mr Bruce, whose behaviour in executing his Commission is greatly 
Complained off, but My Lord Ancram will be able to inform you 
whether these Complaints are Justly founded ; if what people say be 
true, Mr Bruce has made more money these last two Months than your 
Lordship will make by Commanding in Scotland were you to stay many 
years. 

Cornwallis hopes you have not forgot to mention to His Royal 
Highness the application he made to you. 

I am, 

my Lord, 
with the Greatest Respect 
your Lordships Most Obliged Humble Servant 




■ cT^/k^ 



The enclosed ^ Memorial was brought to me Just as I had finish'd 
my letter ; the person had applyd to me before, but I told him I could 

1 It is not among the MSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. I43 

do nothing in it without your Lordships directions, and as the story was 
about half an hour long I desired he would give me a short Memorandum 
of it in writing. The Presbyterian Minister came with the Memorialist 
and preach'd a pretty long sermon upon the occasion. You will be 
pleas'd to let me know what answer I am to make. 
Endorsed: — A. 27th. 



ex. 

Lieutenant Armstrong to Major Roper.^ 

Forress 22nd August 1746. 



Sir, 



I wrote to Brigadier Mordaunt, when I thought he was at 
Edinburgh on his Road to London, to beg he wou'd apply to Lord 
Albemarle for my leave to go to England for about Six Weeks or Two 
Months, in Order to Settle Some Affairs I left in Confusion in the 
Countrey when our Regim* was order'd to Scotland, which the Neglect 
of doing imediatly will be of the greatest Loss and dissadvantage to me. 
I find my Letter miss't the Brigade, that he was gone before I wrote ; 
this dissapointm^ makes me take the Liberty to beg that you wou'd lay 
my Case before his Lordship, and as there are few or no Recruits or 
Aukward men with the Regim*, and y^ Season for Exercise just going 
out, I hope his Lordship will consider that it may be the intire Ruin of 
my Circumstances if I don't timely endeavour to prevent it, and that he 
will be pleas'd to allow me to be absent till about the later End of 
October, in which Time I will punctually return to my post. I have 
spoke to my Comanding Officer, Col. Dunbar, and he has given me 
leave so far as he had power to do. I also have Maj"" Gray's Appro- 
bation. Still there is a Necessity of making Application to Lord 
Albemarle. I am far from wishing to go from the Reg* at this Time, 
were I not threatned with some dissadvantages that might hang heavy 
over me if I did not take proper and Timely Measures to prevent it. I 
shall be infinitly Oblidg'd to you to let me know, as Soon as convenient 

^Feilden MSS. 



144 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

for you, if this is so lucky to meet with My Lord's Approbation, and I 

am 

D' Sir, 

your most Obedient Serv* 

WILL ARMSTRONG. 

My Business is not to London, but to the Country. 

Capt. Parr is still Extremly ill at Inverness. 

To Major Roper, Aid De Camp to Lord Albemarle at Edinburgh. 

Endorsed: — A. Sept. 5th. 



CXI. 

John Thomson to the Earl of Albemarle,^ 

My Lord, 

As your Lordship was pleas'd to desire me to give you 
a particular Account of the part I acted from the beginning of the 
late wicked and unnatural Rebellion, till I had the honour of seeing 
your Lordship at Strathbogy,^ I shall in obedience to your Commands 
lay before your Lordship the following Facts. 

In the beginning of August, 1745, I had occasion in the course of 
my Business to go by sea to Caithness, where I first heard of the 
Pretender's Son's landing in the West-highlands, and that some of the 
Clans had joined him. Upon this I made it my Business to visit as 
many of the Gentlemen and Clergy as I could in my way to Aberdeen, 
through the Countys of Sutherland, Ross, Inverness, Nairn, Murray, 
Banff and Aberdeen ; and in all Companies endeavoured to shew that, 
in this attempt, the Pretender was but a Dupe of France, which wanted 
only to have the British Troops recalled from Flanders and employ'd 
in a Diversion at Home-, as advantagious to them as it was destructive 
to us, which ought to raise in every true Briton the utmost indignation 
and Abhorrence at the Authors and Abettors of it, And that those who 
were so wicked and audacious as to join in this base and unnatural 
Rebellion, thus wantonly and unprovoked, would inevitably fall a 
sacrifice to the just vengeance of their King and Country, 
1 Feilden MSS. 2 jn March, 1746. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. I45 

Upon my Return to Aberdeen, a few Days before Sir John Cope 
arrived there with the Army,^ I endeavoured to learn what part the 
Town was to Act should the Rebels approach it after Sir John's 
Departure, and finding that those who were well affected to His 
Majesty were of opinion that they could not defend the Town, which 
was open and without Walls, and many of the Inhabitants Jacobites, 
who might betray and turn their Arms against the Rest, I judg'd it for 
the Service to desire Lieut. Governour Cawfield, and Capt" Monro of 
Culcairn to inform Sir John Cope of this, and to propose that he should 
require the Magistrates to deliver up to him the 12 Cannon and 300 
stand of Arms which belong'd to the Town, lest they should fall into 
the hands of the Rebels, who then wanted them much. Accordingly 
Sir John required the Arms of the Magistrates, and had them delivered 
up and carried off. 

After the unlucky affair of Preston, the Jacobites, elated with the 
success, began to appear in Arms every where, and opened and 
examined the Letters to and from Edinburgh ; so that the well affected 
had no intelligence by the Posts, especially to the north of Aberdeen, 
but what came through the Rebels Hands. I therefore judg'd it might 
be of Service to transmit to my Lord President ^ and other Friends of 
the Government any intelligence I could get of the Steps which the 
Government was taking to Suppress the Rebellion. And in five or six 
Days after the first Ten Battalions arrived from Flanders ^ there came 
a Ship luckily to Aberdeen from Newcastle, the Master of which I 
examined, and got an account from him of the arrival of the Troops, 
which I immediatly sent by Express to Sir Harry Innes at Elgin, 
to be by him forwarded to my Lord President, and which, with the 
other intelligence I gave from Time to Time of the Motions of our 
Troops, and of the Associations and noble Spirit shewn in England for 
Suppressing the Rebellion, was made use of to overaw and intimidate 
the Disaffected and Bystanders, and to encourage and keep others 
steady. I likewise improved my intelligence of the Disposition of the 

^ After his abortive march to Inverness, Cope proceeded to Aberdeen on September 11, 
1745, and sailed on September 15. On the 21st of the month he was defeated at Prestonpans. 

^ Duncan Forbes of Culloden. 

^ The EngHsh forces recalled from Flanders to repress the rebellion in Scotland began to 
arrive in the Thames on September 23, 1745. C/, Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 22, 

T 



146 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Well-affected Clans for the same purpose at Aberdeen, and openly 
contradicted and exposed by that means the false Accounts which were 
spread there of the great Accession of Forces to the Rebels, particularly 
from the Highlands. 

I carried on my Correspondence with our Friends in the North 
twice or thrice a Week till the beginning of November without having 
any of my Letters discovered by the Rebels. But as they shrewdly 
suspected me of giving intelligence to the President they threatned 
to put me to Death if any Letters of mine with intelligence should fall 
into their Hands ; however, that did not hinder me from carrying on 
my Correspondence as formerly. 

When the first ship with Arms and Money for the Rebels arrived 
at Montrose,^ I immediately sent notice of it to the Fox Man of War in 
the Firth of Forth. And upon the arrival of the next ship with Arms 
at Stonhive, by which there came an account of some others that were 
on the Coast bound for the same Place, I ventured, tho the Roads were 
then strictly guarded by the Rebels, to send my Servant with an 
Account of it to the Hazard Sloop then in the Firth of Forth, as I could 
get no other whom I could trust, or who would run so great a risque, 
and had he been taken I must have been involved in the same Fate 
with him, nor could I find any among the Friends of the Government 
who would join me in the Dangers I ran. I sent off however, at the 
same time, another Express to my Lord President to acquaint the 
Glasgow Man of War, which was believed to be then in the Murray 
Firth, but happen'd next Day to appear off Aberdeen, when with no 
small difficulty and Danger I procured a Boat and a proper Person to 
go and inform the Capt" of the arrival of the Privateer at Stonhaven, 
and of another that was then Steering close along the shore under the 
Fog for the same Port. I also required the Surveyor of the Customs to 
go off in the Kings Boat to the Man of War, lest the other might miss 
her, as she was under sail. The Glasgow accordingly gave Chace to 
the Privateer, but being unluckily becalmed, and the Privateer getting 
Boats from the shore, was towed in to Stonhaven, where it seems the 
(jlasgow did not care to venture. 

One Ferrier of Breechin,^ a Rebel Officer, who was then at Ston- 

1 About October g, 1745. Cf. Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 21. 
^Captain David Ferrier, Cf. my Rising 0/1745, p. 305, 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. I47 

haven with a Party to guard and carry off the Arms that were landed, 
being informed that I gave notice of the Privateer to the Glasgow Man 
of War, he and the Capt" of the Privateer that was chaced came next 
Day to Aberdeen with a Party to apprehend me, and I narrowly 
escaped their hands by getting out at a back Door whilst they were at 
the outer-Gate of my Lodgings. 

Understanding that L^ Lewis Gordon was come with a Commission 
from the Pretender as Lord Lieut, of the County of Aberdeen in order to 
force a considerable Levy of Men and Money, I promoted an Associa- 
tion at Aberdeen, in which twenty of us joined, and sent a Deputy to 
my Lord Loudoun and the President to propose that six or seven 
hundred Men might be sent to Aberdeen, and that we would join them 
with three hundred well Affected men, to free the Country from the 
Rebels and prevent their levying more men and money. But the 
Independent Companys not being then completed, Lord Loudoun could 
not then spare us any.^ 

Upon the 3d Novr. Being certainly Informed that there was a 
particular Order come from the Young Pretender to search for and 
seize me, I set out for Inverness, but v/as so closely pursued by one 
David Tulloch, a Rebel Officer, and some other Riders, that they over- 
took me at Elgin and went directly to the Inn where I alighted, but 
missing me there, they broke open the Stable Door and carried off my 
Horses and things, and I happening to be then at a private House, got 
off from thence in the night Time to Inverness, and was followed by 
them to Forres. 

Whilst I stayd at Inverness I carried on Correspondence with my 
Friends at Aberdeen and elsewhere, and what intelligence I got I com- 
municated it to my Lord Loudoun and the President. In the End of 
November there Came Accounts to Inverness from the Rebels that 
there were some Thousands of French landed at Aberdeen and 
Montrose,^ and the Roads were then so strictly guarded by the Rebels 
that they cut off all other intelligence from us, nor would any of the 
usual Expresses venture to Aberdeen ; I therefore proposed to my Lord 
President to send my servant thither to learn their Numbers, which he 

1 Cf. Bisset's diary in Spalding Club Miscellany , vol. i., p. 359. 

^ Lord John Drummond's troops from France, to the number of about eight hundred, 
landed on November 22. 



148 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

approved of. Accordingly he went by By-Roads, enter'd the Town in 
the night Time, and brought an exact Account of the small Numbers 
landed, as also of those that were then taken at Sea by the Sheerness 
and other ships of War,^ which greatly dissappointed and disconcerted 
the Jacobites in the North. 

My Lord Loudoun having certain intelligence of the many cruel 
and Oppressive Acts committed by the Rebels in the Countys of Banif 
and Aberdeen, in the treasonable Levys of Men and Money which they 
presumed by Force to make, he order'd Mr MacLeod with seven hundred 
Men to march to the relief of these Countys,^ and I went along with 
him, procured or decyphered any intelligence he got of the Rebels, and 
was in the Action at Inverury, where I lost my things again. And for 
the Advice I gave there, tho' it happen'd not to be followed, the Rebels 
never forgave me, and by all the Prisoners of my acquaintance who 
made their escape from the Rebels I was assured that the Rebels were 
determined, if ever I should fall into their Hands, to put me immediatly 
to death, and for that purpose had me described to those of them that 
did not know me. 

Having retreated to Inverness with Mr MacLeod, I carried on a 
Correspondence with my Friends at Aberdeen 'till my Lord Loudoun 
left Inverness, when I marched along with him to Rossshire, and from 
thence was sent by him on Board the Vulture Sloop of War with 
dispatches for His Royal Highness the Duke. In our way we had an 
Engagement with a French Privateer with part of Fitz James's Horse 
on Board, and during th,e Action I joined the Marines on the Quarter 
Deck. 

A few Days after my arrival at Aberdeen, I understood that Major 
General Bland was gone to Command at an advanced Post,^ and having 
resolved to attend the Army till the Rebellion was quelled, I went out 
to General Bland and offered him my Service, as I knew the Roads and 
many of the People in the Country, and might probably procure or 
decypher any intelligence he might get. In this Capacity I continued 

^ Two of Drummond's transports had been captured on their voyage to Scotland. C/. 
Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 27 n. 

^ Cf. The Rising of 1745, p. 113. 

^ By March 26, 1746, the first line of Cumberland's army, under Albemarle and Bland, 
was established at Strathbogie. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 145. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 149 

till your Lordship came up and took the Command, and I had then the 
Honour of attending your Lordship 'till after the Battle of Culloden. 
Since that Time I attended My Lord Ancram during his stay at 
Aberdeen, who can best inform your Lordship of my Conduct there. I 
shall allways be proud of the Honour of being with the most profound 
Respect, 

My Lord 

Your Lordships most obedient and most humble Servant 

JOHN THOMSON. 
Edinburgh 22 Augt. 1746. 



cxn. 

Major-General Bland to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

Soon after Your LordsP Set out from hence, Capt. Campbell 
of the Perth-shire Company told me he had fresh information of the 
Person called the D. of Perth " having been lately with Several others 
at Castle Drummond, by one who had Seen him, and is, or was, a 
Tenant to y^ Duke, and tho' I look upon some part of the Story to be 
Apocryphal, Yet I order'd Capt. Campbell to repair immediately to Crief, 
and to communicate his Intilligence to the Officer Commanding the 
Detachment there, carrying the Man with him who gave him the 
Intelligence, and to concert their Measures together in order to appre- 
hend the Suspected Persons if Still in that Neighbourhood, but by all 
means to bring in no Prisoners, the Guarding them being very Trouble- 
some. 

Not doubting but Several of the Rebells may be lurking in that 
Corner, and when disturb'd there, may fly for Shelter towards Down and 
Dumblain, I thought it Necessary to Send the Detachments design'd for 
those Towns from hence this Morning, with Directions in Writing 
for their Conduct, a Copy of which is here Enclosed for your Lordsps 

1 Feilden MSS. 

2 The Duke of Perth had died at sea on May 13, 1746, on the French ship La Bellone 
which was carrying him from Scotland. 



i50 tHE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Perusal, that in case the Orders are too full, or that anything is Omitted 
which should be incerted. You would be Pleas'd to let me know it, and 
they shall be immediately Alter'd. 

When Lieut. Stuart Returns from Viewing the Places near the 
Heads of Forth, and that he finds Proper Accomodation for Lodging 
and Supporting 40 or 50 Men there, I will Send that Detatchment also, 
looking upon that Post much more Essential for the Security of this 
County, and to Restrain the Highlanders from making Inroads, than 
those at Down and Dumblain, tho' I think they are all Necessary ; but 
lest these Detatchments should make the Duty fall too hard on the 
Troops here, I will lessen the Guards in this Town as much as I 
can. 

Capt. Crosby came here Yesterday from Aberdeen with the Men 
on his Command belonging to Barells, Prices, Campbells and Conways. 
As those of Barells had neither Sergt. nor Corporal, I Sent them to 
Linlithgow this Morning under the care of one of the Paymasters 
from hence. Capt. Crosby March'd at the same time with Campbells 
Men for Glasgow. Prices and Conways remain'd here with their 
Regiments. 

On Examining the Men in the Provoes, He had none that belong'd 
to Hamiltons Dragoons. The two first, viz. John Hamilton and John 
Lightfoot, are both Deserters from Lord Sempills, whom I deliver'd to 
Capt, Lucas. There is only George Robinson of Prices remaining, 
besides the two of the Second Regt. of Guards, who shall be sent to 
Edinborough with a Pass in a few days, as Your LordsP directed. 

The Military Rebells in Stirling Castle, being 4, shall be sent to 
Edenborough with the Escort that goes for the Paymasters, as Your 
LordsP directed ; and I wish we could be as Easily Rid of all the others. 
The two belonging to Skeltons, and the One to Loudouns, shall be for- 
warded to their Regiments very soon. 

I had a Petition given me Yesterday from two Frenchmen in the 
Hospital here, who had their Leggs broke at the Siege of the Castle.^ 
I Sent to Enquire into their Condition. They are well of their Wounds, 
but will ever be Lame. They complaind that for the first five Months 
they had only 3d p. diem allowed them ; but these two last Months 

^ In January, 1746. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 151 

they have had 46 p. diem paid them. I Enquired of Maj^ Cunningham, 
who pays them, why they had but 3d p. diem allowed them. He says 
it was by M. G. Blakeneys Orders, and in the Acco* he made up lately 
with Lord Justice Clerk he charged no more. Their request was to 
be Sent to their Troupe, as they call it ; but as I believe they are at 
Carlisle, they must be carried thither either in a Cart or on Horseback 
(being so lame they can't walk), it would come to a considerable 
Expence. If any more Prisoners are Sent from hence to Carlisle, 
they may be sent there at the same time and deliverd to the French 
Officers. 

I rece^ a long letter from Colonel Naizon this Morning full of 
Uncertainties and Grievances about the allowance which should, as 
he thinks, be made his Capt. for Forage furnished by them to their 
Troops last Year before the Magazines were Erected. All I can say 
to him on this head is, that when I presented the Estimates Sent me 
from the three Irish Regiments of Dragoons of those Charges to 
H.R.H. the Duke at Fort Augustus He Rejected them Entirely, and 
would not trouble himself about them ; so that they must apply else- 
where. Their demand comes to about ;^iooo. a Regt. which I imagine 
they will never get. I had a letter also from Colonel Peterson from 
Air dated the igth. inst, at which time he knew nothing of his being 
order'd to Attend the Court Martial at London, as he desired I would 
Sollicite Your LordsP to grant him leave to go to Ireland to Marry his 
Daughter, every thing being agreed upon, and only wanted his Presence 
there to compleat it. Col. Naizon likewise wants leave to go to London ; 
and I presume two thirds of Your Army here are Teazing You for the 
same End, having Bussiness of the utmost importance to Transact ; 
tho' the greatest part of them, like Col. Walgrave, want only to buy a 
Hatt or some Such Trifle. 

I will not trouble your LordsP longer, but only to Assure You 
that I am with the utmost Respect and Esteem, My Lord 
Your Lordships Much Obliged Humble Serv^ 

HUM. BLAND. 

Stirling 22d August 1746. 

To the Rt Honble the Earl of Albemarle etc. 
Endorsed : — A. 25th. 



152 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

CXIII. 

Duncan Grant to Edward Burt.^ 

Inverness 226. August 1746. 

Sir, 

The Troops are now all gone to their winter Quarters, and 
we have two Regements of them here, vizt. General Blakeneys and 
Coll. Batteros, and I dare Say our Guards Consist of as many men 
as our Garrison did before. 

There is a dispute like to arise about the fireing and Candles for 
the Guards. General Blakeney Commanding here very Justly requires 
the Town to furnish them as he has noe funds for that purpose. They 
on the other hand, and they think as Justly, refuse to doe it,^ Saying 
its non of their business, as His Majesty has appointed a proper fund 
for it. And upon the whole the truth of the matter is this. That the 
whole yearly Revenue of our Town could not furnish them. I therefor 
thought it proper to acquaint you of this in case you Should Judge it 
necessary to lay it befor marshal Wade, our Governour, by whose 
Orders I formerlie provided Coal and Candle to our Garrison ; another 
motive that induces me to trouble you with this is, That this day I 
saw a letter from Hatch Moody Esqr. dated the 5th Currt. to Mr 
Colquhoun our Fort adjutant, Containing as follows, 

" I have Communicated to Mr Burt your letter of the 23d Jully 
" last, and in Answer thereto he desires me to acquaint you that by the 
" order of Marshal Wade Mr Duncan Grant is appointed to provide 
" Coals and Candles etc. for the Garrison of Inverness, and whatever 
" bills he draws for that Service he is ready to pay " ; noe more on this 
Subject. 

Now as noe Such order base yet appear'd, and as without it my 
pretending to make Such provision might be reckoned very officious, I 
am at a loss to know what to doe. Therefor, if Such orders are 

^ Feilden MSS. Edward Burt was the author of Letters from a Gentleman in the 
North of Scotland (1754), and seems to have fulfilled certain duties connected with the 
commissariat under Marshal Wade in 1726. Cf. the article upon him in the Dictionary of 
National Biography. 

2 Cf No. CIV., supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 1 53 

intended and not yet forwarded, please get it done in Course, in order 
to prevent as much as possible Grumbleing on all Sides. And what- 
ever orders I receive either from the Marshal or you will meet with all 
due regaird and Complyance from, 

Sir, 

your most obed* humble Ser' 

DUN GRANT. 
A Coppie of my letter to Mr Burt. 

To Edwd Burt Esq'. 

Manchester Court 

Channel Row, 
Westminster. 



(Enclosure.) 

Hatch Moody to Humphrey Colquhoun. 

Coppie of Hatch Moody Esq' His letter To Humphry 
Colquhoun Esq' dated Aug* 5th 1746. 



Sir, 



I have Communicated to Mr Burt your letter of the 23d 
July last, and in answer thereto he desires me to acquaint you that by 
the order of Marshal Wade Mr Duncan Grant is appointed to provide 
Coal and Candles etc. for the Garrison of Inverness, and whatever bills 
he draWs for that Service he is ready to pay, but cannot Stop any money 
for the account of any other person whatever. So that if you have 
occasion to write any more about this Matter, you will be pleased to 
doe it to Mr Burt at his House in Manchester Court, Channell Row, 
.Westminster. 

I am Y's etc, 

(Signd) H. MOODY. 

Endorsed : — Copies of letters about furnishing 

the Guards at Inverness with firing 
and Candle. 



154 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

CXIV. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Augst 23d, 1746. 
My Lord, 

In consequence of what I had the honour to write to your 
Grace in my last, I marched with the Troops from Fort Augustus on 
Wednesday the 1^^^ Instant, and have seen them settled in their 
Quarters at Perth and Stirling, to the mutual satisfaction of them 
and the Inhabitants. 

I congratulate your Grace upon the great and good news we have 
received from Italy, and hope that the allied Army in Flanders may act 
with the same success ; if anything fortunate for us should happen 
there, or the Blow already struck in Italy be properly pursued, I beg 
your Grace will give me timely notice ; by publishing of it here I may 
give real joy to the true Friends of His Majesty, and as great morti- 
fication to his Enemies. 

Enclosed are three Letters^ of Lord Lewis Drummond. who I 
perceive is a man of great Correspondence and will frequently trouble 
your Grace in this shape. 

I am (with great respect) 
My Lord 
Your Grace's most Obedient Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
D. of Newcastle. 

Endorsed: — Rd. 29. 

cxv. 

Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness 23d August 1746. 
My Lord, 

Captain Lloyd in the Glasgow Man of War arrived at 

Cromarty Harbour the 20th Instant in the evening, and I sent that 

^S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 16. 

2 They are not in the Biindle, ^ Feilden MSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 155 

night the letter your Lordship left with me for Captain Lloyd by the 
express he sent to the Master of the Uictualer, with orders to Joyn him 
immediately, but to my great Surprise I have not received as yet 
either a Letter or Message from Captain Lloyd. 

I send your Lordship Inclosed the Copy of a letter I received from 
the Magistrats of this Town,^ and I humbly desire that your Lordship 
will be Pleased to honour me with your Commands how I am to act. I 
likewise send your Lordship Copies of letters '^ relating to fireing and 
Candles for the Guards here, as also a Cirtificate of Lord Lovat's 
Secretarys bad state of health.^ 

Lord Lewis Drummond proposes now to go by sea to Newcastle, a 
proper land Carriage being very difficult to be had. 
I am with great Respect, 
My Lord 
Your Lordships Most humble and most obedient Servant 

WILL. BLAKENEY. 
Rt. Honble. the Earl of Albemarle. 
Endorsed : — A. 27th. 

CXVI. 

Major-Gen ERAL Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle.* 

Inverary Aug* 23d 1746. 

My Lord, 

In the Letter I had the Honour to write to your Lordship 
of the 22d. I forgot to mention my having sent to Dunbarton the two 
Additional Companies of my Regiment. In sending them thither I had 
two views ; the first was to strenthen the Garison in the Castle where 
there are a good many prisoners, amongst which are two Brothers of 
Kinloch Moydarts,^ For by the weakness of the Garison several Prisoners 
have already made their Escape from thence. 

The other Reason for sending the two Companies to Dunbarton 
was to Oblige the Magistrates of the Town, who desir'd to have some 
of my Regiment there if it was otherwise consistant with the Service. 

1 Of August 21, supra, No. CIV. 2 Supra, No. CXHL 

'The certificate is enclosed in Lord Albemarle's of September i, infra, No. CLVIIL 

* Fell den MSS. ''Allan Macdonald and Ranald Macdonald. 



156 tiiE ALBfeMARLE PAPERS. 

Having now told your Lordship my reasons for sending them 
thither before I had your Orders for that purpose, I submit it to your 
LordP to dispose of them hereafter as you shall think proper. 

As there are several of the Argyleshire Levies so much wounded as 
to render them incapable of following their former Occupations, if your 
LordP approves of it I shall Order them to Dunbarton Castle to fill up 
the Vacancies there, which I immagine is intirely in your Lordships 
power. 

I am, 

My Lord 
Your Lordships most faithful and obedient Humble Servant 

JOHN CAMPBELL. 

I beg pardon for the liberty I have taken by imploying another 
hand, but I really am still very much out of order. I received the 
inclosed this morning; the Commodore gott out of Horse Shoe Bay 
yesterday 12 of the Clock. I believe it is the Lady McKinnen that your 
Ldsp and he both mean, she was taken up by Captn. Scott. I wish he 
may have provided evidence against Her. I have sent evidence for 
Buisdail, who was one of his prisoners, and upon finding it come out 
pretty Strong I took the liberty of putting him on board for England. 
I doe most heartily condole with you for the loss of Honest Brudenel,^ 
if he was in his Sencess before he died I'me sure he regrated his not having 
the pleasure of Seeing the Rebells upon their long March ; there will 
be no difficulty in finding evidence against those Sent your L^sp by Lt. 
Col. Campbell. 

Earl of Albemarle. 

Endorsed : — A. 27th. 

cxvn. 

Lord Braco to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

It will give me great Satisfaction to hear that your Excel- 
lence has gott the better of the fatigue of your Heighland Campaighn ; 

1 Cf. No. LXXV., supra. ^ Feilden MSS. 



tHE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 157 

'tis Happie for the Country that one who is Indue'd with Soe much 
goodness and Humanity has the Command of the Kings troops in 
North Britain. 

I have a fforest for Deer and fir Woods of large extent in Braemar 
Which will require some few peoples attendance, and as the Country 
people Cant carie arms Without a Warrand, I must beg leve to desire 
that your excellence Will be pleased to give me pass ports for the 
persons whose names are Inclos'd to carie arms as fforesters for takeing 
care of my Woods and fforest. 

I hope to have the honour to waite on your Excellence at Ed^r the 
beginning of nixt winter. In the mean time I Intreat you'l belive that 
I am with great treuth and Esteam 
My Lord 

Your Excellencies Most humble and most obedient Servant, 




^CJ^^^ 



My Wife desires that her Complements may be Acceptable to Your 
Excellence. 

Rothiemay 23d August 1746. 
Endorsed : — A. 2gth. 

(Enclosure.) 
List of Lord Braco's Servants. 

1 Callum Mackenzie in Glendee, about thirty two years of age, of 
a fair Complexion Inclyneing to Brown, about five foot seven Inches 
high. 

2 Alex^ Mcintosh in Glendee, of a Dark brown Complexion, about 
twenty Six years of age and about five foot Eight Inches and a half 
high. 

3 Duncan Keir in Glendee, of a dark brown Complexion, about 
fforty years of age and about five foot seven Inches high. 

4 Donald McKenzie in Dallmore, about thirty years of age, of a 
black Complexion and about five foot six Inches high. 



158 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

5 Duncan McKenzie in Dallmore, about thirty six years of age, of 
a fair Complexion and about five foot seven Inches high. 

6 Alexander Downie at Miln of Dallmore, about fforty years of 
age, of a brown Complexion and about five foot Eight Inches high. 

Endorsed : — A List of L. Braco's Servants who have Warrants to 
carry Arms for y^ Protection of H. Ls. Woods etc. in BraeMar. 



CXVIII. 

Major-General Bland to the Earl of Albemarle.* 

My Lord, 

Ensign Stuart Returnd this Morning from Viewing the 
Posts towards the Heads of the Forth, and made me a Report of the 
Same, which I put in Writing, with my opinion of them, and Send it 
here Enclosed for Your Determination. If Your LordsP approves of 
it, Orders must be Sent to Major Colvil to Send his Detatchment from 
Glasgow to Drummond of Lenox, with directions for his Relieving that 
Post Monthly, or as often as You shall judge Proper ; and orders to the 
officer who commands it to join with the Detatchment at Buchlyvie in 
Sending a Serjt. and 16 Men to Bofron, which lyes between their Posts, 
and to hold a constant Corrispondance together, and inform one another 
of what intelligence the[y] Receive about the Rebells or Highland 
Thieves, in order to concert proper Measures for their falling upon 
them, either Separately or in a Body, as the Exigency of affairs may 
require ; and when I receive Your Orders, I will Send the Detatchments 
from hence to Buchlyvie and Keppan. The sooner this is done the 
better, to prevent the Highlanders during these light Nights from 
uplifting, as they call it, the Cattle of the Lowlands, that being the 
time they Generally commit these Crimes. As Ensign Stuart knows 
the Several Posts and all that part of the Country, I wish your Lord- 
ship would Send him back, that he may Post the Detatchments in 
those places and See them fixt before he returns to Edinborough ; and 
in the Mean time I will draw out the Necessary orders for their Con- 
duct, both for the Detatchments from hence and that from Glasgow, 

1 Feilden MSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. ' 159 

and Send it by Ens. Stuart to the officer at Drummond of Lenox. 
I have reduced the Guards here to 2 Subs. 5 Sergt. 2 Drumrs. and 72 
Men, the Castle Guard included. The out Commands are taken from 
the 20 Companies and made a Separate Duty from that in this Town, 
that all may take it in their Turn. Enclosed is a Return of those 
Commands, as also the Duty here. 

The hundred days Forage, or Forage Money, which Your Lordship 
said would be allowed the Troops in the Field, Ends the igth of August 
inclusive, after which it would cease, and that we should only be 
allowed two hundred days Winters Forage Money 'till we took the 
Field again next Summer. Query, that if we take Forage from the 
Magazine, are we to Pay the whole Price Contracted for, or only Six 
pence p. Ration, and the Surplus to be paid by the King ; I mean for 
the Staff and the Foot, the Dragoons being to buy their own Forage for 
the Winter. In Flanders Your LordsP knows we were Oblieged to 
Pay the whole contracted for by the Government, the' they allowed us 
only Six-pence p. Ration for the Number of Horses allowed us by the 
Regulation. It is proper that this should be known as soon as Possible, 
as the Officers may feed their Horses cheaper than by taking it out of 
the Magazine unless they have it at Six pence p. Ration. I begg 
Pardon for mentioning this, fearing the Multiplicity of Affairs now 
on Your hands might make it Slip Your Memory. I remain with great 
Respect, My Lord 

Your Lordships Most Obedient and most Humble Servant 

HUM. BLAND. 

Stirling 23d August 1746. 

To the Rt Honbie the Earl of Albemarle. 

Endorsed : — A. 25th. 



CXIX. 

John Thomson to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

By the last Letter which I had the Honour to write your 
Lordship,^ you would see that I did every thing that was in my power 

1 Feilden MSS. '^ Cf. No. CXL, supra. 



l60 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS, 

and often risqued my Life for the service of my King and Country. 
But I thought my self bound in honour and Duty to act in that 
manner, and would have done so had I had no Office, nor the prospect 
of any, under the Government, so that I have nothing to plead on that 
score. And if His Royal Highness the Duke shall be pleas'd to take 
any notice of me it will be intirely on your Lordships Account, who 
was pleas'd of your own accord and in so obliging a manner to recom- 
mend me to H.R.H. As you have been pleased by this unexpected 
Generosity to honour me with your Countenance, I beg leave to lay 
before your Lordship my present Situation. 

I have been these twelve Years Surveyor General, which is a 
Station worth about 200;;^ p. annum in Salary and perquisites, and is 
the highest under the Commissioners of Excise, but attended with a 
good dale of Fatigue and Expence. My long service in the Revenue 
and in an Office where I have had the inspection of the chief part 
of the Management of it, and hitherto with the approbation of the 
Board, may I presume have qualified me for any other Station in it. 
As the Commissioners of Excise are obliged to examine strictly into 
the Qualifications and Management of the several Officers under them, 
it is absolutely necessary that there should be some Persons at that 
Board who have gone through the ordinary Steps and are Masters 
of the Business. But at present there is only one Gentleman (Mr. 
Dowdeswel) who was bred to it, and is now pretty much advanced 
in Years, and another (Mr Drummond) who was bred to Accompts, 
and chiefly turned for inspecting the Business within Doors. The rest 
are Gentlemen who have not been bred to any Business, so that 
the Charge of the whole management of the Revenue of Excise lyes 
properly on Mr Dowdeswell ; but his opinion or Advice, unluckily for 
the Revenue, is but rarely followed ; for as all Determinations of the 
Board must be by a Majority of that Board, those who know least of 
the Business are most positive to have every thing carried in their 
own way. It seems therefore necessary, that upon the first Vacancy at 
that Board, some one in my Way be appointed to supply it, and if His 
Royal Highness the Duke shall be pleased to recommend me for it, 
I flatter my Self I could be of considerable Service to the Revenue, 
which at present suffers very much for want of Persons known in that 
Way, and which my Lord President was very sensible of and has taken 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPEilS. l6l 

notice of it to me as a Fault, /That Offices of such consequence to the 
Crown should be bestowed upon Persons not properly qualified. They 
again, in their turn, bestow the Offices under them without regard 
to the Merit or qualifications of those they employ ; of which there 
have been many Instances, and particularly two of late, where Stations 
of the highest Trust, which they had to bestow, were given to very 
unfit Men, namely Messrs Alexander Stuart and Alexander Home. The 
first, after he had evidently been proved perjured, and the same 
recorded in the public Minute Books of the Board, instead of being 
dismissed from all public Trust, as he deserved, was by Mr Cochrane, 
Commissioner, promoted upon the first Vacancy after to be General 
Supervisor. And within these few Weeks Mr Rhodes, Commissioner, 
has advanced Mr Home to the same Office, tho' utterly incapable of 
discharging that Trust. 

He and his Father were in the Rebellion at Preston in the year 
1715, and his Brother in this and now a Prisoner. 

Both these Officers Characters are well known to Mr Drummond, 
Commissioner of Excise here, who is at present in London, and who 
can give a farther account of the Conduct of Messrs Cochrane and 
Rhodes. This Management I thought myself obliged in justice to the 
Public to take notice of to your Lordship, who has the Public Interest 
so much at Heart, and therefore hope you will forgive this Trouble. 

I am perfectly sensible of the Honour and Favour your Lordship 
has done me, and shall ever make it my Study to deserve and acknow- 
ledge it. 

I have the Honour to be with the greatest veneration and Respect, 
My Lord, 

Your Lordships 

Most obedient and most obliged humble servant, 

JOHN THOMSON. 

Edinburgh 23d August 1746. 



l62 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS, 

cxx. 

Robert Turnbull to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I formerly with great Joy have had the honour to Con- 
gratulat your Excellence on your being appointed by His Majesty our 
Commander in Chief, for tho amongst the many dreadfuU Consequences 
the late Rebellion has had and may still have, Yet I think if good can 
come out of evil, His Majesty has thereby had an opportunity to know 
and distinguish his reall friends from those who were only Such in Show. 

As his Royall Highness the Duke is now at London, and as my Sta- 
tion and trust here will oblidge me in his Highness' absence to adress you 
frequently as His Majesty's Service or my own Circumstances may 
require, 

I here take the liberty to Inclose an Account of a part of my 
Services, By which you'l perceive, That tho I have mett with as dis- 
courageing disappointments as an honest man could, Yet I retain and 
will to my death the honest principalis I was Educat in. Yea, even 
before the Revolution, for in the two Reigns preceeding that period. My 
father and eldest brother were persecute as Rebells. But I hope the 
late glorious Victory has dispell'd any fears that might have been had 
of returning again into a Goverment Influenced by Counsells from 
France or Rome. 

What relates to the Six Vacancies of private men in this Castle, 
and which by reason of the hard duty I wish were Supplyed as Soon as 
possible, Mr Lindsey the Dept Secretary at Warr will mind you. I 
have the honour to be. 

My Lord 
Your Excellences Most obed. humble Servt. 

ROBT TURNBULL, 

Dumbarton Castle August 23d 1746. 

Endorsed : — A, 27th, 

I Feilden MSS, 



tHE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. I63 

CXXI. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Clayton to the Earl of Albemarle. ^ 

Fern Hill August 23d 1746. 
My Lord, 

By a Letter reed, yesterday from Capt. Willson, I am 
informed of your Lordships Goodness to me in continuing me on the 
pay of Major of Brigade under you as Commdr. in Cheife in Scotland ; 
from whence all the Kindness your Lord^p has shewn proceeds I am 
quite ignorant. As to merit, I have no more than what a plain down 
right Honest man may lay claim to, and even supposing this Character 
I give of myself to be true, I could in no shape claim Your protection, 
because I know not that I have Earnd it ; but, My Lord, you have 
Carryed it further than I can Express ; 'twas a smal Legacey left me 
by my Father, and You out of y^ usual Goodness has confirmd it to me. 
My Most Greatfull Acknowledgment will I hope be accepted for this. 
May your Lordship and your Posterity be ever as Happy and Contented 
as you have now made me ; and I hope you will beleive me never more 
Sincere than when I take the Liberty of Subscribing my Self 
Yr Lordships Most Oblig'd 

and Most Obedt. Humble Serv*^ 

JAS. CLAYTON. 
L^ Albemarle. 

Endorsed : — A. Sept. ist. 

cxxn. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Howard to the Earl of Albemarle.- 

Carlisle Augst 23d 1746. 
My Lord, 

Your Lordship will give me leave to beg your acceptance of 
my most sincere thanks for your last favour from Fort Augustus of the 
3d. August. 

1 Feilden MSS. 2 jj^-^. 



1 64 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

I delivered the two enclosed letters to Monsr. D'Eguilles^ and Mr. 
McDonald the moment I was honoured with your Lordships. 

I received a letter last post from the Agent, and Mr. Thos. Hard- 
castle is the person appointed to succeed Ens. Trelawny in our 
Regiment. 

Your Lordship desired I would acquaint you with it, and that you 
would recommend it to His Royal Highness. 

The Judges are at present gone from hence, but return the 4th of 
next month for the tryal of the Rebells.^ One man out of twenty of the 
most guilty will be tried and probably suffer, the rest to be transported. 

The French Officers are marched this morning for Penrith, where 
they are to remain ; the private Men continue here. 

This Place is full of Prisoners, and our Duty is greater than we 
have ever done during the whole War. We mount a Field Officer, 
Captain, 4 Subalterns, 180 men Rank and File every day, so that the 
Major and I relieve one another, and the Subalterns have at present 
only one night in bed. Brigdr. Fleming is very cautious, but I should 
think near half the number would answer the Intent with as much 
security. 

Brigdr. Mordaunt came here the night before last, and went away 
yesterday morning. Lord Stair is expected here to morrow night in his 
way to Edinburgh. 

As a Scotch Soil can never suit an English Constitution, I can 
easily believe your Lordship would be very glad to be out of it ; but as 
the concern is at present national, I likewise know that your Lordship's 
Zeal makes it your own. 

1 have the honour to be with the truest Sense and greatest Grati- 
tude for all favours. 

My Lord 
Your Lordsps most Obedient and obliged Humble Servant 

G. HOWARD. 

^ The Marquis d'Eguilles joined the Prince, as titular Ambassador of France, at Holy- 
rood on October 14, 1745. His letters relating his adventures in Scotland are in Revue 
Retrospective, vols. iii. and iv. (Paris, 1885-86). Cf. Annates de I'ecole libre des sciences 
politiques for April, 1887. 

2 After opening their commission at Carlisle on August 12 the Judges appointed to try 
the rebel prisoners proceeded to York. They resumed their sitting at Carlisle on September 
9. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 437. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. l6S 

If a Prosecution is carrying on against me at Edinburgh/ which I 
am in some apprehension of, I should take it as a particular favour if 
your Lordship would allow Capt. Gage to send me a line. 

Endorsed : — A. 30th. 



CXXIII. 

Colonel Dejean to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

According your Lordships orders and disposition I have 
quarter'd my Regiment. I have no complaints of any kind ; one Hugh 
Mackay, formerly under cook to y^ Duke of Gordon, Came to me and 
surendered himself, and after a little Encouragment he told me there 
where Some more Rebels lurking about this Town, and I promis'd him 
if he would Conduct a party to take them I would interceed to Y"" Lord- 
ship for him. I did sand a Serjant and twelfe men, they brought me 
two more Rebels and y^ Landlord that had arbored them. I did sand 
ye inclosed Examination to Mylord Semple, and had orders to sand 
back ye cook Mackay, and to take Security for ye Landlord and ye two 
Rebells, wich one Robert Fraizier, and James Aberdon, to be keep in 
custody till your Lordships orders should be known. I sand hier 
inclosed ^ ye Prisoners Examination and Mylord Semples letter to me ; 
if your Lordship has any orders for me, I shall execute them to ye 
utmost of my Power, and begg to lett me know your Commands. 
I am with Great Respect, 
My Lord 
Your Lordships Most obedient humble Servant 

L. DEJEAN. 
Bamff august ye 23th 1746. 
Endorsed : — A. Sept. 2. 

1 Cf. No. CLVHL, note, infra. 2 Peilden MSS. 

' It is not among the Feilden MSS. 



i66 tttE Albemarle papers. 

(Enclosure.) 

Report of the Quarters of the Hon^'e Colonel Lewis Dejeans Regi- 
ment Quarter'd at Banff etc. August 26th 1746 

Quartered at Fockabus, one Company 
at Cullen, one Company 
at Banff and Portsoy, five Companys 
at Frezersburgh, one Company 
at Peterhead, Two Companys 
N.B. the Quarters of the above all good ; but the Troops in Banif 
Very much Crooded. the men are Quiet and no Complaints. 

L. DEJEAN. 

CXXIV. 

Major-General Skelton to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Perth August 24th 1746. 

My Lord, 

According to your Lordships orders I send you the Inclos'd 
Returns. Lord George Sacville has omitted sending the return of His 
Regiment, perhaps by mistake it may have been sent to you to 
Edinburgh. 

The three men of St Clairs additional Companys mentiond in the 
Examination sent you are Prisoners here ; they will be Examin'd to 
morrow, and I will send you by Tuesdays Post their Examination. 

I Congratulate your Lordship upon the Victory in Italy. 

1 was in hopes that the General Court Martial on the Gentlemen 
for Surrendering Fort Augustus would have been order'd by this time.^ 

I am My Lord 

With Great Respect 
Your Lordships most Obedient and Most Humble Servant 

H. SKELTON. 
Endorsed : — A. 27th. 

^FeildenMSS. 

2 A Court-Martial was held at Stirling about September 17, 1746, upon Major Wentworth 
and the officers who had surrendered Fort Augustus to Prince Charles's forces in the spring. — 
Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 498, 



TflE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 167 

cxxv. 

Duncan Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

When the three additional Companys of Lord John Murrays 
Highland Regiment were first raisd their head quarters were appointed 
them in diffrent places, as their respective Captains had most Interest, 
to facilitat their Recruiting with Expedition. My Company in Inveraray, 
Sir Pal. Murrays in Crief, and Mclntoshes in Inverness. 

But as the two last Captains are order'd to the Regiament, and 
Captains Menzies and Mcpherson come from it to Command those 
additionall Companys, which in some measure may alter the former 
reason for the division of quarters. Your LoP will please give your 
orders for that or any other appointment. 

In case your LoP has no fix'd view in appointing the Quarters, 
I beg leave with great submission, as I have the honour to Command 
the three Companies, to mention the places I think properest with 
respect to Recruiting, Seperatly or together. If together, I think Crief 
or Doun, a little place in four miles from Stirling, the places most 
centricall and commodious. If otherwise, Inveraray for mine, Aberfeldie 
near Taybridge for Captain Menzies, Ruthvan for Captain Mcphersons, 
are the places we have Seperatly most Interest in, and can best know 
what people we take. 

I have sent to Mr Lindsay, Secretary at War, a Return of the 
present Strength of my Company, and as Captain Menzies is but lately 
come to Scotland, and Captain Mcpherson not yet arriv'd to my know- 
ledge, have no regular Returns of their Companys, tho I know there 
are Some men recruited for them. 

I am with the greatest reguard 

My Lord 

Your LoP's most obedient and most humble Servant 

DUN. CAMPBELL. 
Inveraray 24th August 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. 30th. 

^ Feilden MSS. 



l68 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

CXXVI. 

The Secretary at War to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

War Office 25th August 1746. 
My Lord, 

His Majesty having been pleas'd to direct a General Court 
Martial to enquire into the Conduct, Behaviour and proceedings of 
Major General Oglethorpe at or near Shap, and he having delivered 
in a List of several Officers now under Your Lordship's Command who 
he desires may attend the said Court Martial to give their Testimony, 
I have the honour to enclose to Your Lordship a Copy thereof, and to 
desire Your Lordship would give immediate Orders that the Officers 
mention'd in the said List do repair to London with all possible 
Expedition, so that they may arrive here by the 29th of Septemr. 
next, on which Day the said Court Martial is appointed to meet and 
proceed on this Enquiry.^ 

1 am with the greatest Respect, My Lord 

Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servt. 

H FOX. 

Right Honbie Earl of Albemarle. 

Endorsed : — A. Sept. 2d. 

(Enclosure.) 

Officers Summoned to the Court-Martial upon Major- 
Gen eral Oglethorpe: — 

Lieut. Colonel Arabine, of Genl. St. George's Regt. 
Captain Adaire, of Lord Mark Kerr's Regimt. 
Cornet Hall, of Ditto. 
Lieut. Agnew, of Genl. St. George's Regt. 
Cornet St. George, of Ditto. 

^FeildenMSS. 

2 Oglethorpe had been despatched by Marshal Wade to follow with the cavalry in 
pursuit of Prince Charles's army shortly before the engagement at Clifton on December i8, 
1745. He was honourably acquitted on October 7, 1746. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 498. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 1 69 

CXXVII. 

James Colquhoun to Major-General Campbell.^ 

Dumbartan 25 August 1746. 
Dear Sir, 

At the desire of the Gentlemen present I am (as precess of 
the Meeting) appointed to write you these few Hnes, returning you our 
hearty thanks for the great care you have hitherto had of us, and wee 
earnestly beg of you to continue your friendly care of us at a time when 
realy it is much wanted ; wee refer you to the Sherrife, who is one of our 
Number, who will acquaint you how earnestly every one of us Sollicite 
to have the Contents of the Memoriall ^ complyed with, and wee firmly 
depend upon your goodness and Activity at this Criticall Juncture, the 
Michaelmas Moon being near at hand. I am 

Dear Sir 

Your most obedient humble Serv* 

JA. COLQUHOUN. 
To The Honourable 
Major General John Campbell 
at Inverary. 

CXXVIII. 
Sir Harry Innes to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

My zeal for the publick Service, however little it is in my 
power to Shew it, will I hope Appologize for the liberty I now take. 

When your Lordship commanded at Strathboggie you wou'd be 
acquainted of the Just Suspicion against that Countery of Disaffection, 
which is still made appear by the daring insolence of Some Rebels latly 
resorted to that Town, as your LoP will See by the enclosed Letter* 
Sent me by the Minister of Strathboggie. The person he does not 

1 Feilden MSS. 2 cf. No. CLXL (Enclosure ii.), infra. 

^Feilden MSS. » It is not among the Feilden MSS. 



I/O THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Chuse to name I presume to be Gordon of Abachie,^ whose audacious 
behaviour and Activity as a Rebel your LoP has no doubt heard of 
Saintclair is the fellow whose head the Government has Set ;^5o, and 
Two private Merchants in Aberdeen ^30 reward for. The Character 
of the Countery, and the Rebels resort in Such a publick manner, it is 
hoped by the few friends his Majesty has in Strathboggie will make it 
appear reasonable to your LoP that Some few Troops be Quartered 
there, as without them that pass will become unsafe for Travellers. I 
suggested this to my Lord Semple at Aberdeen, but as he could not 
Alter the Disposition of the Troops, he only promised to Send Detach- 
ments upon Information of the Rebels. 

Sometime before his Royall Highness the Duke left Fort-Augustus, 
General Bleckney, at my request, Applyed his Highness for a pardon 
to Alexander Inness and William Grant, on Condition they wou'd give 
Such Intelligence of Glenbucket as he might be Apprehended. These 
young men, to my Certain knowledge, have been at pains in their 
Endeavours to apprehend him ; and there was such Intelligence given 
by them, that his Escape was narrowly. If your LoP thinks proper to 
grant a protection to these young men, without mentioning the Cause, 
they will still continue their Endeavours to make good what was first 
proposd, and Surrender themselves when the protection is expired. 

I hope your LoP will forgive this trouble, and believe me with the 
greatest Esteem, 

My Lord 
Your LoPs Most obedient, obliged 

and very humble Servant 




Elgin 25th August 1746. 
Endorsed : — A. Sep'' 4th. 

^ Gordon of Avochy had raised a regiment and had joined Lord Lewis Gordon in the 
winter of 1745. He took part in the engagement at Inverurie on December 23. Cf. The 
Rising of 1745, pp. 112 et seq. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. f/t 

CXXIX. 

Lord Fortrose to Major-General Blakeney.^ 

Sir, 

One of My Tenents in Kintail brought me here a Rebell 
Express Prisoner, with the two inclosed Letters that the fellow had 
carefully concealed, I thought proper to send both him and his Packet 
directly to you, as he is a Rebell and wont confess whence he came or 
where he was going. If I am not mistaken the Person that signs the 
Letters is one of the five that landed in Lochbroom, and was intrusted 
with Letters to the young Pretender.^ I have the Honour to be with 
great Regard, 

Sir 

Your most Obedient Humble Servant 

(Signed) ^^if-f^f^J^ 

Braan Castle Aug. y^ 25th 1746. 
To Major General Blakeney. 

(Enclosure I.) 

The Chevalier de Lancize to 

14th August 1746. 
Sir, 

Wee have been detained longer than we expected in this 
Countrey in pursuit of our bussiness and must continue ten days 
longer ; if the Gentleman who brought us to the Country, who you 
saw, comes your way in search of us, desire him to continue going and 
comeing untill we go to the place apointed to meet him, and send the 
inclosed to him, att any rate desire him not to go off without us as he 
shall answer to his constituent ; give him the inclosed, and if any other 
of our Countreymen come there before him, desire them to wait there- 
about till we return, as we have bussiness of the outmost consequence 
upon hand ; if you should be at any trouble or expence in sending to any 

1 Feilden MSS. 

^ M. de Lancize, the writer of the following letters, was presumably a companion of 
MM. Dudepet and de Nangis. Cf. No. XXXVL (Enclosure), supra. 



172 THE Albemarle papers. 

of our friends that comes to your neighbourhood we shall pay you 
att meeting ; we are 

Your Assured Humble Serves 
(Signed) LE CHEVALIER DE LANCIZE. 
N.B. — This letter had nither direction nor seal to it. 

(Enclosure II.) 
The Chevalier de Lancize to 



Je suis extremement inquiet, Monsieur, De Sauoir Si depuis que Je 
nay eu Lhoneur de vous uoir il na point paru de vesseau franQois sur 
nos costes, Soit celay sur Lequel Je suis venu,^ ou quelque autre, 
peutestre en aurat il paru [?] a Lille ou nous avons este proche Lille 
des prestres jen ay oublie le nom, mais Les montaynards qui nous a 
menerent le dernier Bateau pouvonts uous le dier. Je vous prie en 
grace de vous donner quelque mouvements pour faire cette decouverte, 
et si par hasard il sen trouvoit quelque actuellement dans quelque une de 
ses ports de Lay enuoyer cette lettre auec ordre dattendre mon retour, 
qui Seroit immediatement apres que Jauray Recu cet exprest. Si 
quelqun de ses Messieurs officiers du prince se trouvoit a portes, il 
rendroit un grand Service sil faisoit quelque dilligense pour cela, em- 
ployes sil vous plaist ceux que vous croires en erta de faire ceque Je 
demande et Je les pairay a mon retour. Jay Lhoneur destre tres 

parfaittement 

Monsieur 

votre tres humble et tres 

obbeissant Serviteur 

(Signed) LE CHEVALIER DE LANCIZE. 

ce 24 aoust 1746. 

N.B. — This letter was sealed and directed, part of the Direction 
Blotted as set down here 

A Monsieur 

Monsieur De 

A 

1 ? The Bien Trojivee. Cf. p. 46, supra. 



triE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 1 73 

cxxx. 

Colonel Borland to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

Since my last nothing material has occurr'd worth troubling 
Y^ L«^P with relating to the Regimt. except Mr Lawrence and Trelawny 
are both in Town and do Duty, and that His Majesty has sign'd a 
Notification for Mr Lenten to succeed Mr Pole, and I daily expect His 
Commission to be out, for want of which I return an Ensign Vacant. 

The Princess of Hesse arrived at Kensington on Sunday, and 
with the Princess Caroline sets out for Bath to morrow. 

Brigad' Jefferys have been try'd by a Gen^ Court Martial for 
making a false Return etc., but their Opinion on the Tryal is not yet 
known. 

I most heartily hope that this will find Y^ L^p drawn more to the 
Southward, Edenbourgh being somewhat preferable to Fort Augustus ; 
but should more rejoyce if Y' L^p could still come farther and see this 
Metropolis, where I am certain Y'' h^P would meet with more Friends 
both to Yourself and the Royal Family than Y"" L^p will in the Metro- 
polis of North Brittain, in which Number, of a Most sincere Friend and 
well Wisher, I beg leave to subscribe myself, who am My Lord 
Yr L<lps most Humble and most Obedt. Servt. 

H. BORLAND. 
Park Street 26th Augt. 1746. 

Since I wrote this Letter the Inclos'd from Mr Armstrong came to 
my hands, and tis the first time I ever had this affair mention'd to me, 
nor do I know what to say to it till I hear y^ L,^?^ Opinion about it. 
As this, my Lord, was for the service of the Battalion abroad tis hard 
the poor man should be a sufferer, and I dare say tis not Y' L^ps 
Intention. Permitt me therefore, my Lord, just to hint that there is 
some money in the hands of the Agent unapply'd, by some Savings 
abroad in Camp Necessarys etc., — Y'' L<^P might therefore think proper 
to order him some Consideration out of That. I only mention it, but 
submitt it to Y^ L^ps Discretions. 

1 Feilden MSS. 



t74 TiiE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

This day His Majestys pleasure was communicated to me by 
H.R.H. That two Battalions of the Guards should hold themselves 
in readiness for imediate Service, That the second and third Battalions 
of the first Regim* should draw Lotts for one to go, and the second 
Battalion of the Coldstream and second Battalion of the third Regim* 
should draw Lotts which should be the other, and that everything 
should be provided for them but Horses. Co^^ Reynolds and I have 
mett, and it falls on our second Battalion to be one, but as yet have 
had no Report made me which of the Battalions of the first Reg. makes 
the Other, but I shall have it early to morrow to carry to H.R.H. and 
very probably by next post shall be able to inform Y^ L^p more of the 
matter; for at present I know not whether any marching Corps are 
order'd, or what Field Officers are to go with the Guards. 
I am Yr L«ips most Humble and Obedt. Servt. 

H. BORLAND. 

Endorsed : — A. Sept. 4th. 

CXXXI. 

The Secretary at War to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

^ M. G. Oglethorpe desir'd the Attendance of Major Earle as 
well as of Lieutt. Coll. Arabine ; but upon its being represented to him 
that it might be inconvenient to leave that Regiment without a Field 
Officer, He has consented to the summoning of Lieutt. Coll. Arabine 
only. But I am at the same time directed to desire your Lordship, 
in case Lieutt. Coll. Arabine can not come, to send Majr. Earle, it being 
very necessary in Mr Oglethorpe's Opinion that one of those Gentlemen 
should attend to give Testimony at his Tryal.^ 
I am with the greatest Respect, 

My Lord, 
Your Lordship's Most Obedt. Humble Servt. 

H. FOX. 
War Office August 26, 1746. 
To The E. of Albemarle. 
Endorsed : — A. Sept. 2d. 

1 Feilden MSS. ^ Cf. No. CXXVL, supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. I75 

CXXXII. 

Major Forrester to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I hope You are perswaded That nothing but Necessity cou'd 
oblige me to intrude on One moment of Your Lordship's time. 

One John McLaren, an Elder of the Presbyterean Kirk in the 
McGregor Country, having been ordered to receive ten pounds Sterling 
for his House, which was burnt by the Detachment under my 
Command, His Royal Highness the Duke, as he pass'd at Crieff, gave 
his Directions to Brigadier Mordaunt for the payment of that Sum, 
Ordering me at the same time to send for the Man. Which, tho' I lost 
no time in doing, Yet he never appeared here till this day. 

I immediately waited on General Skelton, imagining He had 
received Your Lordship's Directions in regard to this Man, when he 
shou'd appear. But as he tells me That he knows nothing of the affair, 
I cou'd not Avoid giving Your Lordship this Trouble, to inform you 
That the said McLaran, being fourescore years old, is now here, having 
brought a Letter from a Presbyterian Minister of Good Sense and 
Character, vouching his being the Person to whom his Royal Highness 
ordered that Bounty of ten pounds. 

As his Age and Infirmities render him Unable to travel more than 
a few miles a day, I have desired him to remain here till Your Lordship 
shall be pleas'd to Direct where he shall receive the Royal Bounty. 

I hope Your Lordship will believe, That among the Numbers 
who Subscribe themselves Your Servants, There can be None who Sets 
a Greater Value on that Honour, or who can lay a juster Claim to it, 
Than 

My Lord, 

Your Lordship's 

Most Respectful and most devoted Servant, 

JAMES FORRESTER. 
Perth August 26th 1746. 

Endorsed : — 'A. Sept. 2d. 

1 Feilden MSS. 



176 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

CXXXIII. 

Major-General Skelton to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Perth Augt. 26th. 1746. 

My Lord, 

I received this Morning your Instructions which shall be 
obey'd, as likewise a Warrant for a General Court Martial, and the 
Deputation of a Judge Advocate. There is no Gentleman here fitt to 
discharge that Duty, therefore I desire you will send the Judge Advo- 
cate Himself, and that He will bring with Him the new Articles of 
War. 

I send this by Express to your Lordship that no time may be lost 
in Obeying your orders. 

Col. Ramsay will be President of this Court Martial, as He was not 
at the Examining the Works of Fort Augustus probably He is not 
designd for the General Court Martial to be held at Stirling,^ so then 
they will not interfere. 

His Royal Highness's Instructions of May 19th for Recruiting 
seems to me to be calculated only for those Officers who were sent to 
get Men from the Disbanded Reg^s, therefore as your Lordship designs 
that all the Regts in Scotland should recruit on the same footing, you 
may think it necessary to give a further Explanation, 

The Size of the Men in that order being 5^. 51", and half an Inch 
less for those that are likely to grow, as like wise that Two Guineas and 
a Crown may be given for the Men, and no Regulation made upon what 
Terms they are to be brought to the RegS I am at a loss what to do till 
I have your Lordships further directions. 

I am, 

My Lord, 

Your Lordships Most Obedient And Most Humble Servant 

H. SKELTON. 

Endorsed : — A. 27th. 

1 Feilden MSS. 2 Qn Major Wcntworth. Cf. No. CXXIV., supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 1 77 

CXXXIV. 

Colonel Naizon to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I waited your L^ships arrival to Edinburgh to send you a 
return of my shattered Regiment. My Horses are Grazed at three 
different Places, Strauvan by Port Patrick, Bergusnay fourteen Miles from 
hence, and some here. My Men are Quarter'd at Killmarnock and here, 
but Must move some from hence on acc*^ of two Companies of Lord 
Semples come in here this Day by y"" L^ships order. Forrage is very 
bad in these parts, and am glad to hear no Troops are to Winter here. 
I have many reasons to beg y^ L^^ships Leave of Abscence, but, as it 
may be inconvenient in the present Circumstances, I must beg your 
Lordships Sentiments on that score ; the liberty taken at present is 
owing to the Honour of your past favours to me, which I shall allways 
acknowledge with gratitude. I pick'd up a deserter of my Regiment at 
Carlisle, who was Confined there since Feby. last on suspicion of being 
a Deserter. I brought him here, and shall wait your L^^ships orders 
concerning him ; an Example w'd not be a Miss, as they think it a small 
Crime to trip over to Ireland. Excepting that, I must Do the men 
Justice they really behave very well. 

I am with the greatest Respect, 
My Lord 
Your Most Obedt. and Most Obliged Humble Servant 

PETER NAIZON. 
Air 26th of August 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. 31st. 

CXXXV. 
James Campbell to ^ 



Honrble Sir, 

When I parted with You after receiving my Orders att 
Stirling, I went to Capt" Cunningham who Commands att Crieff, and 



J Feilden MSS. 2 Ibid, 

Z 



1/8 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

concerted Matters with Him in Relation to what Informations either of 
us might have. Sunday night he sent me Orders that I might under 
night march so as to meet him at Achinaer by break of the Day on 
monday, and make Search thro' the different Glens on this side of 
the Forrest, and all the Shiellings and suspected places, which was 
done w* all Dilligence possible, and mett w* him at the appointed 
Place by break of Day, and went from that thro' the rest of the Forrest 
searching all the Hills and suspected houses and places, and mett 
w* him att Night at the East-End of LochEarn. He march Home 
early this morning for his Garrison att Crieff, as I did for mine in 
Balquhidder, and found nothing in all our Travells. 

I also have made Intimation att the Churches of Callendar, Port of 
Monteith, Aberfoil, Comery in Strath-Earn, and Balquhidder, anent 
driving down their Shiellings, and shall next Sabbath make y^ like 
Intimation att y^ Church of Killin-in-Bredalbine, which I hope in a 
little time will have good Effect. The rest of your other Orders to me 
shall be punctually obey'd according to my Capacity ; And I ever am wt 
the greatest Gratitude and Esteem, Hon^ie Sir, Your most faithfull and 
Obedient Humble Serv* 

JAMES CAMPBELL. 

Kirktown of Balquhidder 

Augst 26th 1746. 

P.S. — This Information to make Search in y^ Forrest came to 
Captn Cunningham, and I believe y* Capt" Cunningham as well as I is 
assured of y^ Duke of Perths being in y^ Country.^ 



CXXXVI. 

Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness 27th August 1746. 
My Lord, 

I did myself the honour of writing three letters to your 
Lordship, dated the 15th. 20th. and 23d. Instant. 

1 Cf. No. CXn., supra, ^ Feilden MSB, 



TriE Albemarle papers. iyg 

Captain LLoyd arrived at Cromarty the 20th Instant, and we are 
preparing a Ship to carry Lord Lewis Drommond and his People to 
Newcastle, under Convoy of the Glasgow Man of War. 

One of Lord Fortrose's Tennants has seized a Rebel who was 
taken with two letters which he was carrying to some of the Rebels 
chiefs,^ but he will not confess any thing, tho' he received this morning 
one hundred good lashes with a Catt of Nine tails. Inclosed are Copies 
of the letters, the contents of which I communicated to My Lord 
Loudoun, that he might make dispositions accordingly. 
I am with great Respect, My Lord 
Your Lordships most humble and most obedient Servant 

WILL. BLAKENEY. 
Rt. Honble. the Earl of Albemarle. 
Endorsed : — A. 31st. 

CXXXVII. 

Major Rufane to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

As we have his Royal Highness's Commands not to part 
with our Horses, I beg Leave to know of your Lordship if we are at 
liberty to get what Corn we can from the Lands which were Tenanted 
by Persons that were in the Rebellion, withoutt which I have reason 
to believe, from what I am told they are doing at a little distance from 
us, that they will Reap the benefit of it themselves. A Baily of the 
Duke of Gordons has been with me Asserting his Master's Claim to the 
Crops of such Lands as were held of his Grace by persons known to 
have been in the Rebellion ; at the same time he allows the little pro- 
bability there is of his being able to prevent these Rebels from carrying 
away the greatest part of the Corn. I therefore hope we may become 
fairly the proprietors of it, but for this I wait to be Honoured with your 
Lordship's Commands. 

I am sorry that our Men continue so very Sickly, though I may 
assure your Lordship the best care is taken of them that can be in our 

1 Cf. No. CXXIX. (Enclosures), supra. « Feilde7i MSS. 



iSo tHE ALBEMAfeLE PAPERS. 

present Situation ; as they now go on with the New Building, I hope 
we shall in a little time be better Accomodated. I am, 

My Lord, 
with Great Respect Your Lordship's 

Most Obedient Humble Servant 

WM. RUFANE. 
Fort William August y^ 27th 1746. 

Endorsed: — A. Sept. 2d. 

CXXXVIII. 

The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness August 27th 1746. 

My Lord, 

I came hear late last night, being sent for by M. G. Bleakeny 
on some letters [that] had been intersepted in Kintail from Mos. La 
Luize ^ of no great importance. My being hear prevents my being able to 
send your LoP a return of the Several Postes that we occupie on the Roads, 
but by this delay I shall be able to give you the whole at once, for I am 
by the Generals approbation at present imployed in Settling with the 
people of the several districts from hence by Baddanoch Quite to the 
West Sea such a corespondance as I hope will be easie to keep the 
Country in Quietness As by the Plane ; they are to sease and inform 
me of all Strangers that come to harbour among them, and to track all 
Cattal Stoln from them or Drove throw there Country, and to give me 
information from hour to hour which way they are gon that I may be 
able to intersept them. But your LoP shall have full accounts of this 
afair when 'tis come to a little more hearing. 

I send your LoP inclosed a Petition I got 3'esterday which sayes a 
good deal for the Author, but I must beg leave to ad a word or two 
more in his favour. He was a Corporal in the Scotes Fuss, and given 
to me at Bruges to make a Sargent of. I appointed him to Cap"^ Murrays 
Company and he Deserted from me on my return from hence with Sir 

^Feilden MSS. 

^ The Chevalier de Lancize. Cf. No. CXXIX. (Enclosures), supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. l8l 

John Cope at Aberdeen, and caryed of 12 Men of the Company with 
him, for which service, As I am informed, the Rebells made him an ensign 
and Governor of Inversnat. But I am assured by those Officers of my 
Reg^ that were taken in Sutherland that he was there in the shape of 
an Officer. I beheve I need trouble your LoP no forder on this head, 
and shall only ad that I am with great Respect 

My Lord 

Your Lordships 
most Obedient humble Servant 

LOUDOUN. 

Endorsed : — A. 3rst. 

CXXXIX. 

Major-General Bland to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Stirling 27th August 1746. 
My Lord, 

Last Night Mr. Stuart deliver'd me Your Lordsps of the 
25th instant. That moment I gave orders for the Parties which are to 
go to Keppan and Bucklivy, to which places they Marched this Morning 
about Nine. As the 3 Companies of Prices Quarter'd at Allowa furnish 
their Proportion of Men to all these Out Commands, they could not be 
here Sooner. Having prepared Proper Orders in Writing for the 
Officer who Commands at Bucklivy, and another for the Serjeant at 
Kippan, they were deliver'd to them before they March 'd, with Orders 
to the Magistrates of those Town[s] to Quarter them there. The Orders 
are much the Same as those given to the Officers at Dumblain and 
Down ; only that the Officers at Bucklivy and Drummond of Lenox are 
to Send an Equal Number of Men from their Commands to Bofron (for 
which I have Sent an Order to Quarter the Serjt. and 16 Men there), and 
to keep a constant corrispondance together, Acquainting each other 
with all the intelligence they receive from time to time of the Rebells or 
the Highland Thieves, in order to concert proper measures for their 
falling upon them, either Separately or jointly in a Body, as the 

1 Feilden MSS. 



1^2 THE ALBEMArLE pApERS. 

Exigency of Affairs may make it Necessary ; and lest the Detatchment 
Sent from Glasgow to Drummond of Lenox should not have received 
your Lordsps instructions for their Conduct on that Command, I have 
Sent proper Directions in Writing to the Officer who Commands there, 
with an order to the Magistrates to Quarter them, by Ens" Stuart, 
whom I have Sent with the Detatchments from hence to See them 
Posted, and then to proceed to Drummond of Lenox to do the Same, 
and deliver the Officer the Said instructions for his Conduct during his 
Stay there, which they are to deliver to the Officers who Relieve them, 
and so on from one to another. 

The Gentlemen in the Neighbourhood of those Posts have been 
made Sensible that the Troops sent there are for their Security and not 
ours, and if they don't take care to have them properly Supply'd with 
Bread and other Provisions at Reasonable Rates, I had your LordsPs 
Orders to recall them back directly ; on which they promissed the Men 
should want for Nothing. 

The Party for our Paymasters went from hence this Morning at 6, 
by whom the Prisoners mentiond in my former letter were Sent, with 
orders to be conducted from Falkirk to Linlithgow by Barrells and 
there deliver'd to Leighs Party to be carried to Edenborough. Your 
Lordsps two Men left here in the Provoes went with them at the same 
time, but not as Prisoners, but with my Pass to join Your Lord^p 
at Edenborough. 

I have wrote to Cap* Campbell, and Enclosed a Copy of the Duke 
of Newcastles letter for Reducing the Perth-shire Company of Volun- 
tiers, and Directed him to put the Said orders in Execution immediately, 
which letter I sent to him this Morning by a Boy hired on purpose. 

Not knowing the Officer of Dragoons who is near Drummond 
Castle, or whether he was fit to put Your Orders in Execution or not, 
and Cap*^ Will. Cunningham of the Royal, Commanding the Detatch- 
ment at Crief, being a very Allert Officer, I have wrote to him about the 
Affair, and desired him to Acquaint the Dragoon Officer with your 
Lordsps orders on that head ; but at the same time, Order'd Capt- 
Cunningham to Superintend that Affair and Direct the Officer how to 
Act, and to Assist in it himself with his whole Force if found Necessary, 
Since it would be of infinite Service to Destroy those Rebell Chiefs. I 
am persuaded Capt Cunningham will execute those Orders very punct- 



THE ALBEMx\RLE PAPERS. 1 83 

ually ; for a Specimen of which I Send Your LordsP enclosed a letter I 
received from him on Monday Evening, in consequence of the Orders 
I gave Capt. Campbell the Morning You went from hence. I have 
Acquainted Capt. Cunningham with the Chain our Troops now form 
for the Security of the Country and to catch the Rebell or Thieving 
Highlanders, and did not doubt but he would Act Vigorously against 
them. I have told him likewise, with the Orders Sent for Reducing 
the Perthshire Company, that he may be Allert and Rely no more on 
them. 

When Lithgo of Barrells comes here, the Gen" Court Martial shall 
be order'd to Try him and one of Prices, there being no other here as 
Yet. 

A Deserter from Braggs was taken up at Dumblain and Sent in here. 
The Acco* he gives of himself is here enclosed, that Your LordsP may 
Send Your Orders to the Troops in the North to apprehend the other 
Man mention'd in it. I will Send him to Edenborough by the first 
Party that goes that way ; and when any more Prisoners are Sent from 
hence to Carlisle, the two French Prisoners and the Liegois shall go 
with them. The two French Men must be Sent on Horseback, as they 
are both Lame and can't walk but on Crutches. 

Two Droves of Black Cattle went thro' this Town Yesterday to the 
Fair at Falkirk ; they belong to the McLeods, and were Escorted by 
Men with Arms as Your Lordsps Pass directs, otherwise their Arms 
should have been taken from them, and the Men Secured for a further 
Examination. 

If the Officers Commanding the Several Posts now forming the 
Chain follows their instructions, the Rebells in the Highlands can't be 
Supplied with Victual, as they call Meal, from this Country, unless the 
Justices of the Peace and the Ministers are accessory to it by granting 
Certificates for that purpose ; nor will I answer for their not doing it 
from a mistaken notion of Christian Charity, now they think the Rebel- 
lion, in a manner, over. 

The Contents of Your Lordsps instructions shall be punctually 
observed here. Co^ Arabin came here Yesterday, and acquainted me 
with the Dispute between him and Mr. Dundas ; and after some dis- 
course with him, before he could clear it up to me, I made my Self quite 
Master of the Affair, and found they are both in the Right, which seems 



1 84 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

a Paradox ; but it certainly is so, and which I shall have the Honoilr to 
clear up to Your LordsP in a Post or two. In the mean time, I have 
given him directions how to make up that Acco* and to Lodge it with 
M. G. Husks Aid de Camp at Edenborough, against I go there to Settle 
Mr. Dundasses Acco". 

I Answerd Co' Naizons long letter two Posts ago, Acquainting him 
with the Dukes answer to me when I laid his Acco*^ before him at Fort 
Augustus, that I neither could or would trouble my Self any further 
about it, but that he might employ his Agent in London to Sollicit that 
Affair if he thought proper, it being impossible for him to have any 
Redress here ; so I hope we have done with him, unless some new 
Grievances arise, of which he is Generally Brimfull ; having Tired Your 
patience already, I shall add no more but to Assure You that I am with 
the utmost Esteem and Respect, 

My Lord, 

Your Lordships Most Obedient and most Humble Servant 

HUM. BLAND. 

P.S. after I had finished the above, I rece'l the enclosed letter 
from Capt Campbell, which will inform Your LordsP of their progress 
thro' the Hills, but met with no Success. 

Endorsed : — A. Augst. 31st. 



(Enclosure.) 
Captain Cunningham to Major-General Bland. 

I have just now receved the five prisoners mention'd by 
Your order. Four of y*" shall be sent to Perth to morrow morning. 
He of L,^ Loudouns shall be likewise sent as Order'd. 

I have been inform'd here that The Duke of Perth, L^ George 
Murray w* several oy^ Cheifs were seen near this not long agoe. I 
saw Capt Campbell on friday, w* whom I have fix'd a Correspondence. 
I went Yesterday a reconoitring the hills in the highland habit. I went 
throw three routs by which I intend to march different partys this 
night. I sent ane express to Cap^ Campbell, who is to march in the 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 1 85 

same manner on the other side of Glenarty, so as we may all meet at 
Ahunner (their Cheif haunt) by day break. If any thing more is 
necessary We shall agree on it to morrow at meeting. With the 
outmost respect I have the honour to be, S'' 

Your most Obed* Serv*^ 

WILL. CUNINGHAME. 
Creiff, Sunday Evening.^ 
To M. G. Bland. 



CXL. 

Lord Sempill to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I am Honord with Your Lordships Letter and Orders of the 
23d, which I have sentt a Coppy of to Co'' Dejean this day and 
Flemings with Orders to strictly Obay them, which I shall always do. 
I have Liquies wrote to Glames, and in the Inland Countries, where I 
heard the Dragoons were Quarterd, to march emediatly to their Reg^s 
without waiting for the foot to Relieve them, and I shall Lose no time 
in observeing all Your Lordships commands conteand in Your Letter. 

There is severall Rebels surendard them Selves, and Some taken 
with some Armes putt into the Stores ; pleas Let me know if I shall 
make a Return off them Weekly ore monethly to Your Lordship, as it 
would be ane Endless truble to Your LordsP to send ane account of 
Every devidwall. 

I shall take care iff any off the better sort of Rebels who are 
neather Landed men nor have been officers amongst them, there 
Certificates shall be the same with the common Sort. 

I gave Co'' Jacksone Leave to go to Edenburgh, as the affears off 
the Regiment necessary obliged him to go thether. 

I hop your Lordship will Soon Settle the unhappy Mistake betwixt 
the troops and Magestrates of this place ; ^ if it was, I think nothing of 
this Kind will happen agen, as the Provost seems to be a Very Honest 

1 August 24. 2 Feilden MSS. ' Cf. Nos. XXV.-XXVIL, supra. 

AA 



1 86 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

man well affected to the Goverment and Willing to oblige. I have 
nothing more to truble Your Lordship with but to asshure Your 
Lordship I am 

My Lord 

with the outmost Honour and respect 
Your Lordships 
Most obediant much obliged 

feathfull Humble Servant 

SEMPILL. 
Aberdeen Augt 27th 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. Sept. ist. 



CXLL 

Lord George Sackville to Major Roper.^ 

Dundee August 27th 1746. 
Sir, 

I send you the return of the Horses in my regiment ; if my 
Lord Albemarles reason for knowing the number of them is to give 
directions about the Quantity of forrage that is to be laid in for this 
winter at Dundee, I must observe to you that the number at present is 
Considerably greater than it may be some time hence, both from the 
Officers that are going recruiting, and those that will be sold as not fit 
to serve another Campaign. Major General Skelton has order'd the 
Weekly returns to be sent to him every Wednesday, with an intent 
as I suppose to make a return of the regiments under his Command to 
my Lord on Saturday ; if that is the case I need not trouble you with a 
weekly return. 

I am, Sir, 
Your Most Obedient humble Servant 

GEO. SACKVILLE. 

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CXLII. 

Captain Armstrong to Colonel Borland.^ 

Aug. 27th 1746. 
Sir, 

When I was ordered to go to Lisle last Summer by Lord 
Albemarle to visit the wounded Prisoners belonging to our RegS as 
it was not safe at that Time to carry Money from Camp, I took only 
a few Ducats along with me, and my Money running short after I got 
there, I applied to Cap*^ Ducasne, the Commissary for the English, of 
whom I borrowed between five and six Pounds and gave a [torn] 
which he put into Mr Adairs Hands when he came over, and [torn] 

Pay has been stopt these two Months. But as the extraordinary 
Charges I was put to during that Journey, without being any ways 
extravagant in my Expences, was very nigh if not quite equal to the 
Sum borrowed of Cap* Ducasne, I hope my Lord will be so good as 
to order the Payment of that Money in some other Way. I gave in 
a Memorandum of this Some Weeks ago to Co^ Russel, who promised 
to transmitt it in a Letter to my Lord, but as I find my Pay is still 
stopt and the Col. is not in Town at present I am [afraid] he has either 
forgot to mention it to his Lordship, or if he has got an answer about it 
he has not let me know of it, and this obliges me to give you this 
trouble, begging you will be so good as to put my Lord in mind of 
it, which will very much oblige. 

Sir, 
Your Most Obedt Rbie Serv^ 

GEORGE ARMSTRONG. 

To The HonWe Col. Borland. 
Endorsed : — A. Sept. 4th. 

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i88 TiiE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

CXLIII. 
Colonel Dejean to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

Des que je fus ariv6 icy je distribuay, suivant les ordres que 
vous avies eu la bonte de me donner, Mon Regiment, et je prands cette 
occassion, en vous assurant de mon Respect, de vous assurer que tout 
est parfaitment tranquille et content et que nous vivons auec les 
Magistrats et les bourgeois dans une fort grande Armonie, ce que 
Jespere continuera, en prenant pour tant les precautions necessaires 
pour que les traitres des Rebelles ne nous echapent pas. Jeus L'honeur 
de vous envoyer il y a quelques Jours advis de quatre persones que 
J'ay saisis, dont deux ont ete relachez par ordre de Mylord Sempill, 
les deux autres sont en prison, et a vos ordres. J'ay delivre I'habille- 
ment et envoye plusieurs serjants et corporaux en Recrue. Je vous 
prie Mylord de vouloir voir Sy Cest ordre est Suffiient pour cella, et 
de leur donner vos ordres, que J'executeray auec toute la punctualite 
imaginable, comme je suis tres persuade de votre bonte envers moy. 
J'ay l'honeur de me recommander a votre souvenir, quand vous trouveres 
qu'il sera le tems propre, et que le service ne souffrira pas ; pardonnes, 
Mylord, la longeur de cette lettre que je prands la liberte de vous 
Ecrire pour vous assurer plustot de mon attachement a vos ordres, et 
de la punctualite a les observer, que pour aucun autre motif, cella me 
donnant en mesme tems I'oportunite de vous assurer que je suis toujours 
auec un profond Respect 
Mylord 

Votre tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur 

L. DEJEAN. 

Bamff Le 27"^^ Aoust 1746. 

My Lord, 

Le porteur de la presente est Enseigne de ma Compagnie 
et va en Recrue en Northumberland, les autres le suivront au plustot 
avec les serjants et corporeaux. 

Endorsed : — A. Sept. 2d. 

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THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 1 89 

CXLIV. 
Major-General Skelton to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I send your Lordship inclos'd the Weekly return, with the 
Copy of the Examination of Alex"" Wilson, a Recruit in the Additional 
Companies in the Royal. There was a Regimental Court Martial on 
Corpse Roy and William Smith. The Corp'' is broke, but the Court 
was not satisfied with the Evidence against Smith, so that He was 
acquitted. 

I sent an Express the 26th Inst, to your Lordship desiring a Judge 
Advocate might be sent here to hold a General Court Martial ; we have 
Ten Prisoners, seven of the Royal, and three of my Regt. I can find 
no Body here Qualified to act as Judge Advocate. The Messenger is 
return'd but I have receivd no Answer. He brought a Letter directed 
to the Major of Cobham's Dragoons deliver'd to Him by Col. Watson, 
who told Him that was all the answer. I suppose there is some 
mistake because that Letter was directed to their Quarters. 

The Officers here would be glad to know upon what footing their 
Forrage is on, because a great many Horses are sent to grass, and 
if they are not paid in Money for what Forrage they dont take, they 
will be the Grass out of Pockett. 

If your Lordship chuses that the weekly return of Lord George 
Sacville's Reg* shall come directly to you I am Satisfy'd. 
I am, My Lord, With Great Respect 

Your Lordships Most Obedient and Most Humble Servant 

H. SKELTON. 

Perth August 28th 1746. 
Endorsed : — A. Sept. 3d. 

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196 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

CXLV. 

Captain Powell to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

On Saturday the 23d Instant Capt" Fergusone in the Fur- 
nace Bomb arriv'd here for the Lady McKennan, and told me that 
Major Genii Campbell want'd Co'' Macdonald of Barrisdale to be 
secur'd, and that he thought itt would be quite Right of me to send 
a Party to endeavour to Apprehend him ; accordingly the same Evening 
I sent an officer and Thirty Six men to Knoidart, but desir'd the officer 
to say that he was in Persuit of men that had Desert'd the Men of 
War ; but when they came to Barrisdales House the servants told him 
that there Master was gone to Fort Augustus by Lord Loudens order, 
on which the Officer ask'd them Severall questions Relateing to the Men 
he Pretend'd to be in Search of, and then Return'd home, but in 
his Return he saw some Cattle (on y^ Confines of Barrisdales Country 
which joins to the Camerons) which his Guides told him belong'd 
to the Camerons who had drove them there to take y^ Benefitt of 
Barisdales Protection, but as they were found on y^ latters Ground 
I should have order'd them to have been return'd iff Capt" Munroe 
of Culcairn (who Arriv'd here the 26th Instant with four Independant 
Companys) had not shewn me your Lordships orders sent to him by 
Lord Louden, and att the Same time told me that he thought I might 
safely Keep them. I hope your Lordship will not be Displeas'd att my 
haveing sent the Party, as I did itt with no other Motive than to secure 
a Person who Capt" Fergusone Inform'd me had lately been with the 
young Pretender. I hope I have done Right, iff not I must beg your 
Lordship to Impute itt to the great desire I have to do every thing in 
my Small Power for the Good of his Majestys Service. I am, my 
Lord, with all Imaginable Respect, My Lord 

Your Lordships Most Obeidant and Most Oblig'd 
Humble Servant 
CRANFIELD SPENCER POWELL. 

Bernera Augst y^ 28th 1746. 

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THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. I9I 

CXLVI. 

Major-General Bland to Major Roper.^ 

Stirling 29th August 1746. 

Sir, 

This Morning I was favourd with Yours of Yesterday. 
Last Night I received an Answer from Capt. Campbell, who Says that 
the order Sent for Reducing the Perthshire Company shall be punct- 
ually Obey'd ; but as the other Men were Subsisted till next tuesday, 
and that Several of his Partys were Still out Scouring the Hills, he 
could not do it 'till they return'd ; after which he would bring in the 
Arms here, which shall be then Lodged in the Castle pursuant to Lord 
Albemarles Orders ; and I will order him to go to Edenborough to 
Settle his Acco" with Mr Sawyer. He pleads hard for having a Com- 
mand continued where he is, as being absolutely Necessary to Hem in 
the Rebells and Secure that part of the Country from their Depredations ; 
and proposes that a Command of Lord Loudouns should be Posted 
there, commanded by one who knows the Country (meaning, I suppose, 
himself) ; and tho' I believe there is a good deal of truth in what he 
Says, Yet I am of opinion he has felt the Sweet of it, and has done more 
for himself than the Publick ; so that if a Party is Sent there, I think 
the Commanders should be changed. But this as My Lord Albemarle 
shall judge proper. 

Mr Graham of Gartmore Seiz'd in his Neighbour<i a Notorious 
Rebell and Thief, either a McGregor or Mcphearson, and Sent him in 
here ; also the Woman who harboured him and his Gang and received 
the Stolen goods, a good deal of which was found in her house. The 
man was Wounded before he Surrender'd, and is now confin'd in the 
Castle, and will Grace the Gallows very well. The woman is confin'd 
in the Common Gaol, and I hope will meet with the Same Fate. Mr 
Graham presses earnestly for a Detatchment of 30 of our Men at Gart- 
more (which lyes North of Drummond of Lenox and Buchlivy, and at 
the Entrance, as they inform me, into the Mountains) Saying he could 
soon destroy that nest of Rogues who Still keep in Arms and plunder 

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192 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

that part of the Country. Could Troops be conveniently Spared, a 
Detatchment there would be of Singular Service, but considering the 
Number already Sent from the two Reg^s here, they can't well give 
more, unless the Scotch Fuzeliers took the Post at Buchlivy as well as 
Drummond of Lenox. In that case, the Party we have at Buchlivy 
might be removed to Gartmore ; but if the Fuzeliers are otherwise 
employd, so that they can't do it, a Party from Barrells may be Sent to 
Buchlivy instead of the Fuziliers. As the Ford of Frew is a Post of 
consequence, I think the Command at Kippan (which is sent there to 
Guard that Ford) too small, and should consist of an Officers Command 
instead of a Serjts ; this may be done by taking 10 of the 50 from Down 
and adding it to Kippan, by which there will be only a Subaltern added 
to those already on Duty. In all which I Submit the Decision to My 
Lord Albemarle, and only take the liberty of laying things before him 
as they are Represented to me, never having been in that part of the 
Country, and hope I never shall have an occasion of being better 
acquainted with it. Fort Augustus having Sufficiently Satisfied my 
Curiosity. 

The Gen'i Court Martial, of which Co^ Stanhope is President, Sitts 
this Morning on the two Deserters of Prices ; but as no Evidence is 
come to Prosecute the Man of Barrells he cant be try'd to day. Capt. 
Bowyer has wrote to Major Wilson to Send what Evidence he can by 
to Morrow Morning, at which time the Court Martial Shall Sit again, 
that we may clear all that are now in the Provoes. I have wrote to Mr 
Dundass about the Dispute between him and the Dragoons, and desired 
him to lay my opinion of it before My Lord Albemarle, who must decide 
the Affair, or get H.R.H. to do it, having Stated the Case as clearly as 
I could. 

I am. Sir 
Your most Obed*^ Servant 

HUM. BLAND. 

To Major Roper Aid de Camp and 
Secretary to the Rt Honourable 
The Earl of Albemarle etc. etc. 

Endorsed: — A. 31st, 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. I93 

CXLVII. 

Lord Sempill to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Aberdeen Aug*^ 29th 1746. 
My Lord, 

I am Honored with Your Lordships Letter of the 26th about 
this unhappy Difference betwixt His Majestys troops and the toun 
off Aberdeen ; in obedience to Your Lordships Commands I had Capt. 
Morgan and three other Officers concernd with me this Morning, and 
acquainted them with the contents of Your Lordships Letter, with 
my own privet opinion ; they seemd to be determend to doe what Your 
Lordship desired, to write Your Lordship a Letter acknowlageing they 
were in the Wrong,^ but begd I would give them tuo days till they 
heard from Co^l Jacksone, who is now with you at Edenburgh, which 
I concented to. 

It seems there is tuo Other Officers concernd, but they are not 
hear. I am perswaded when this is done away by Your Lordship 
and Lord Justice Clerk, noe more of thoas things will happen hear, 
which is the sincere wishes of him who has the Honour to be, 

My Lord 
Your Lordships Most obediant and most feathfull 
Humble Servant 

SEMPILL. 

Endorsed : — A. Sept. ist. 

CXLVIII. 

The Magistrates of Aberdeen to the Lord Justice-Clerk.^ 

My Lord, 

We are honoured with yours of the 26th Inst, and deliver'd 
the two inclosed Letters to Lord Sempill. We are very Sensible of Y'^ 
L^Ship's favour in conversing with Lord Albemarle concerning the 

1 Feilden MSS, « C/. No. XXV., supra, ^ Feilden MSS. 

BB 



194 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Riot committed in this place the first inst. We doubt not but His 
Lordship will evidently See the Injustice done us when he Considers 
the Affair, and as to the Message Sent to the Magistrates by Lord 
Ancram, it was by our Town Clerk in the forenoon of the first inst., 
Acquainting that he intended to Solemnize that day as a day of rejoicing, 
and expected that We should do the Same by ringing of Bells and 
Illuminations ; to w<^h we replied that the Town of Aberdeen had not 
been in use to Observe that day Since His present Majesty's Accession 
to the Crown, tho' to humour him we shoud order the Bells to be rung 
and the Flag display'd, But as to Illuminations, the day was now 
so long that they woud make no shew untill so late as the Inhabitants 
ought rather to be at rest, And besides we allways found that Illumin- 
ations occasioned Noise and Confusion upon the Street, w'^^ made the 
Magistrates for several years past to drop that part of rejoicing, and this 
We desired the Clerk to carry to His Lordship. It is very true the 
Clerk said, that as we were not thoroughly to comply with Lord 
Ancram 's desire, he thought it better not to send an answer. To w^h 
we told him, that as he had brought us the Message, This was the 
Answer we made, and he might report it to Lord Ancram, But as he 
knew his Temper best, he might do in it as he judged proper, and 
it appears the Clerk did not carry any Answer. And as your LordsP 
wants to have a particular Ace' of the Damages, You have inclos'd 
a Copy of the Report ^ made by the Tradesmen whom we appointed to 
Inspect and value the Damages the day after the Riot happen'd, W^h 
Amounts to One hundred twenty nine pounds 3 Shills, Besides the 
expences of consulting Lawyers and sending several Expresses South 
and North, and allowance to Tradesmen who were employ'd severall 
days in takeing up account of the Damage, w^h may amount to about 
Twenty pound Sterling more. 

As Yr Lordship has allways patroniz'd the Town, and as our 
Elections are now nigh at hand. Our Inhabitants are insisting to 
have their Damages Repaired and such Satisfaction given to the 
Town as the Insult done deserves. We must take notice that a 
great many of the Sufferers are so poor that they have not wherewith 
to repair their Damage, and their Windows do continue in ruins ; 
And Must therefore entreat of your L<iShip that how soon it Suits 

1 It is not among the Feilden MSS, 



TllE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 195 

your Conveniency You will talk with Lord Albemarle on this Sub- 
ject, and we doubt not but you will both devise a Method for putting a 
Speedy End to this Affair consistent with the honour and reputation 
of a Loyall Town. 

In terms of Y"" Lordsps orders, you have inclos'd ^ the Precognition 
relative to the facts charged against Andrew Walker and Walter Nicoll,^ 
and all the witnesses that were order'd to be examined have accordingly 
been so, Except Thomson and McCulloch our Town officers, who are 
now at Carlisle as Evidences for the Crown. 

We have mad enquiry for Evidences against Charles Gordon of 
Terpossie and can find no person in this place that ever saw him in 
Arms. We call'd upon the Sheriff depute and Intimate Y^ Lordship's 
orders to him, and desired him to make Enquiry if he can find any 
Evidence against him that he may transmitt the Evidence to Carlisle as 
Yr Lordship directs. We have the honour to be with very great 
reguard 

My Lord 

Your Lordship's most obedient and 
most faithful humble Serves. 

[ JAMES MORISON, Provost 
Sign'd J WILLIAM GORDON, Baillie 
[ JAMES NICOLL, Baillie. 
Aberdeen 29 August 1746. 



CXLIX. 

Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness 30th August 1746. 
My Lord, 

Inclosed is a Return of the Regiments under my Command, 
as also the Copy of a letter I received from an Officer of Marines at 
Kirkwall in the Orknies, the Contents of which I communicated to My 
Lord Loudoun, and happening to meet Lieutenant Omen of Colonel 

^ It is not among the Feilden MSS. ^ Supra, No. LXXXH. (Enclosure). 

■'Feilden MSS. 



196 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Conway's Regiment, who had leave to go and see his friends at Caitness, 
I gave him the Names of the Rebels mentioned in Mr Moody's letter, 
and Signed an Order requiring all Officers Civil and Military to be 
aiding and Assisting to the Said Lieutenant Omen in the apprehending 
and Securing those Rebels. 

By the Return I received from Lieutenant Worth of the Train, I 
find we have in Store here no more than Seven Barrells, forty two 
Pounds, and fourteen Ounces of Musket Powder ; One Tun Eight 
Hundred and five Pounds thirteen Ounces of Musket Shott, fourteen 
Hundred and Sixty four Musket Flints. Our small quantity of Powder, 
and not knowing how soon we may have occasion to make use of it 
against the Rebels, has hitherto prevented our burning Powder in the 
Plattoon Exercise ; therefore I humbly desire your Lordship will be 
pleased to Order. that a Sufficient Supply may be sent to us as possible, 
of Musket powder. Balls, and Flints. 

The Rebel Express I mentioned in my letter of the 27th Instant,^ 
rather than undergo another Whipping, confessed who gave him the 
letters, and the Persons to whom he was to deliver them, both of which 
My Lord Loudoun will endeavour to secure. 

All the Surgeons in Town have given me under their hands that 
Hugh Eraser, Secretary to Lord Lovat, is so bad of his Wound, and 
having a Hectick Fever and Flux upon him, that he cannot be moved 
out of his Room without the hazard of his life.^ 

Mr Colquhoun, Adjutant to the Castle, that was here, shewed me 
the inclosed letter from Mr Moody to him, and being of opinion all 
things relating to the Garrisons and Troops in North Britain should be 
first Communicated to your Lordship, I desired him to leave the letter 
with me that I may send it to your Lordship, which he complyed with 
very readily. 

I am with great Respect, My Lord 

Your Lordships most humble and 
most obedient Servant 

WILL. BLAKENEY. 
Rt Hon^ie the Earle of Albemarle. 

Endorsed : — A. Sept. 4th. 

' Cf. No. CXXXVL, supra. "-Cf. No. CLVIII. (Enclosure ii.), infra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. I97 

CL. 

Captain Morgan to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

After having already occasiond your Lordship so much 
trouble, I shall not presume to take up your time with a detail of the 
circumstances relating to this unlucky Dispute with the Magistrates of 
this town ^ in order to exculpate myself and refute the Accusations laid 
to my charge : but shall only beg leave to offer your Lordship my 
sincerest Thanks and most humble Acknowledgments for your Goodness 
in Permitting me to put my cause into your Lordships hands. Happy 
in the Honour of such an Arbitrator, your Decision shall be my Rule, 
being with the profoundest Respect and most Grateful! Sense of your 
Lordships Goodness, My Lord 

Your Lordships 
most Obedient Humble Servant 

HUGH MORGAN. 
Aberdeen, August 30th 1746. 

CLL 
Lord George Sackville to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Dundee August 30th 1746. 

My Lord, 

I beg leave to introduce Sir Richard Murray to your Lord- 
ship. He has the misfortune of having a Brother prisoner at Carlisle 
for having been in the rebellion. S"^ Richard is in hopes that the known 
attachment of his family to the present Government may induce His 
Royal Highness the Duke to interceed with his Majesty in favour of 
his Brother ; the favour he has to ask of your Lordship is that you 
would transmit His Petition and the attestations of the Loyalty of his 
family to the Duke. The reason that I trouble your Lordship upon this 

1 Feildejt MSS. ^ q/. Nos. XXV., CXLVH., supra. » Feilden MSS. 



198 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

occasion is that S^ Richard Murray is nearly related to General Colyear 
and Consequently to me, I therefore hope that you will be so good 
as to transmit to his Royal Highness the Petition that will be given 
to you in the manner you shall judge most proper. I am with the 
greatest Respect, 

Your Lordship's Most Obedient humble Servant, 

GEO. SACKVILLE. 
Endorsed : — A Sept. 2d. 

CLII. 

Captain Burton to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I am Extreamly Sorry to be in the least troublesome to 
Your Lordshipp, but the present Scituation of my Affairs Oblige me to it. 

I was unavoidably forced to take up several summs of mony in 
making all the Campaigns, and before that charged with the purchase 
of my Ensigncy, for which my Creditors are continually pressing me. 

The Misfortune of my Arm rendring me incapable of Satisfieing 
yni by any other means, I am obliged to ask Your Lordshipps leave to 
Sell my Lieutenancy. 

As I shall then be destitute of any Subsistance, and Your Lord- 
shipp very Sensible unable to provide for myself, am desirous with 
Your Approbation to give his Royall Highness a Memoriall in hopes 
of some Consideration for the loss I have sustaind in the Service. For 
upon the Selling my Lieuteny I shall be deprived of every Support, 
but w*^ I hope to Receive from his Royall Highness Favour on your 
Lordshipp's Recommendation. 

Having taken the Liberty to trouble your Lordshipp with my reall 
Circumstances, I hope under my present misfortune to Merit your 
Consideration. 

I am. My Lord, with respect, 

Your Lordshipp's most dutifull and Obed* Serv^, 

THOS. BURTON. 

Masham Street Westm. Aug*^ 30th 1746. 

Endorsed : — A. Sept. 4th. 

1 Feilden MSS. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. I99 

CLIII. 
Colonel Borland to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I am this moment returned from Kensington, where I dined 
with L^ Bury and Cap* Kepple, who are both on that Guard and in 
very good Health. I was in hopes of Picking up some News to send 
Y^ L^p, but there is not ane word stirring, or any Knowledge where 
these two Battalions of Guards are to go, if they stirr at all. His 
Majesty asked me this morning at his Levee if the Battalions had every 
thing ready ? I told him Yes. He ask'd if I was to lead the second 
Battalion of the Coldstream ? I told him no, it was Colonel Braddock, 
whom the Duke appointed, and Co'^ Russell also, as they both belong'd 
to the same Battalion, which I think is hard, if what reported be true, 
that Coll Laforcy be excused, and that Battalion to be commanded by 
a Cap*^ Commandant only. Co^l Braddock has not yet fixed the Officers 
for that Battalion, waiting to see if those in the Country come up ; but 
if they fail, there are Voluntiers enough in the first that are willing to 
go. Leggs Fitts are bad ; I know not what they will do with him, but 
I think tis a fine Opportunity to make him sell. Burtons is supply'd by 
Cap* Kepple, and Hicks by Ensign Ottley. Capt Newton is recruiting 
in Shrewsbury and thereabouts, sent for to come to Town, but if Rumour 
tells Truth he is close confin'd for Debt ; if so, I fear he will not with 
ease get his Liberty again. 

Brigad'' Jefferys is broke, and his Reg* given to S^ Andrew Agnew;^ 
and on Monday, Marshall Wade sits President at a Board of Gen' 
Officers to enquire into the Conduct of S^ John Cope, Foulks, and 
Lascelles.^ 

I am very glad to hear by L^ Bury that he so lately heard from 
Y'' L#, and that he believ'd by this time you was safe arrived some 

1 Feilden MSS. 

2 " Lt-Col Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, of the Scots fusileers, Colonel of the mayines 
late Jeffreys, who was broke for false musters." — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 399. 

3 Cf No. LXXX., supra. 



200 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 



degree Southwards as far as Edenburgh, where I hope Y^ L^p will not 
make any very long stay, but come forwards for London. 
I am with the greatest Respect 
My Lord 
Yr Ldps most Humble and Obedt. Servt. 

H. BORLAND. 
Park Street 30th Augt. 1746. 
Endorsed : — A. Sept. 4th. 



(Enclosure.) 

The Return of the Seven Battalions to His Majesty 

28th Augt. 



1st Regt. 





2ISt Augt. 


768 


- 1st Batt. 


509 


- 2 Do. 


678 


- 3 Do. 


749 


- 1st Batt. 


734 


- 2 Do. 


748 


- 1st Batt. 


715 


- 2 Do. 



2d Regt. 



I 3d Regt. 



762 - 


1st Batt. 


595 - 


2 Do. 


680 - 


3 Do. 


750 - 


1st Batt. 


731 - 


2 Do. 


756 - 


1st Batt. 


718 - 


2 Do. 



1st Regt. 



2d Regt. 



I 3d Regt. 



CLIV. 

Major-General Blakeney to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

Inverness 31st August 1746. 
My Lord, 

Major Chambre of my Regiment having left at Edinburgh 
several Peapers and accounts belonging to deceased Officers, which he 
is called upon by their Executors to deliver up, I have given him leave 
to go to Edinburgh for that Purpose, and as his health is in a very bad 
state, I hope he will have your Lordships Indulgence to go on to Moffat 
to drink those waters, and from thence to Monmouthshire to settle some 



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201 



family affairs of the Utmost Consequence. If the Major and Lieu*^ 
Colonel Leighton (to whom your Lordship has promised your leave of 
Absence at a proper time) cannot both be Absent at once, I will en- 
deavour to prevail on the Lieutenant Colonel to stay untill his absence 
can be dispensed with. 

I am with great Respect, My Lord 
Your Lordships most humble and most obedient Servant 

WILL. BLAKENEY. 

Rt Honble the Earl of Albemarle. 

Endorsed : — A. gth. 



CLV. 
Disposition of Quarters for the Troops in Scotland.^ 

Edinburgh 31st August 1746 





Dragoons. 

{ Foulding near Berwick . 
Lord Cobham's-! Drummullar nr Dunse... 


..H. 2... 


E 


II 

QW 

37 
30 
26 

12 

4 

30 

60 

48 
84 

22 


11 

Qffi 

7 
II 




LMackerstoun nr Kelso..., 


ai 

1-1 
0) 


f Haddingtoun 

L. Mk Ker's. ] Dalkeith 


..H. 2... 


9 
20 


Ui 


l^Swintoun n' Dunse , 


3 

o> 

en 
03 

ni 




Sr George's , Dumfries 

rAir 
Nazon's [straenrawerV.".".".".".".'.'.'.'.*.'.;;'. 


...H. 2... 
..H. 2... 


36 




Hamiltons Cowper in Fife 









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208 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

CLVIII. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Sept jst 1746. 

My Lord, 

I have had the honour to receive Your Grace's Letter by 
Jackson the Messenger dated the 22^ of the last Month, to which I had 
immediately answered, but that I waited for Letters from Lord Loudoun 
with the Account relating to Barisdale, and the Posting the several 
Detachments for the security of the Roads and the preventing Meal and 
other Provisions being carried from the Lowlands into the Hills ; and 
that His Majesty may be the easier informed of their situation, I have 
marked them in the Map, as also our quarters, explaining what Num- 
bers are Posted at the several Pases. ^ 

It is with infinite satisfaction I find by your Grace's Letter that His 
Majesty is pleased with my Conduct. I beg the Favour of you to lay me 
at his feet, and to assure him that I shall do all in my Power to 
discharge the trust reposed in me, and to endeavour to prove by my 
future conduct, my Zeal and attachment to him and his Royal Family. 

By the same Messenger I received my Commission ; ^ as to my 
Appointments, I submit them entirely to His Majesty's Pleasure, and 
whatever is thought sufficient shall be agreeable to me, begging only 
that I may have your Grace's Countinance in now and then receiving 
your Commands, and ordering that answers may be sent me to Ques- 
tions that I shall from time to time be obliged to ask, and that whilst 
I make a proper use of the Power that is granted me, I may not be 
curbed or condemned till heard, having nothing in view but His 
Majesty's Interest, and the support of his Power in this Kingdom. 

Our March from Fort Augustus to this Place was very successfull, 
having (excepting the two first days) had very good weather ; all the 
Troops are well quartered ^ and the Magistrates very willing to oblige 

' 1 S.P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 18. ^ Siipra, No. CLV. 

3 His appointment to the Command-in-Chief in Scotland was gazetted on August 23, 
1746. 

^ For their quarters, cf. No. CLV., supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 20g 

them, except at Inverness ^ where they make some difficulties, and 
where the Magistrates show an ungrateful return for the Favours that 
have been shown them, and the great sums that have been expended 
amongst them ; this is partly owing to their ill Intentions and the mild- 
ness of Major Gen^' Blakeney's temper, but I hope before it is long every 
thing will be adjusted to the satisfaction of both Parties. 

I shall be very diligent in apprehending such Rebels as are still 
lurking about the Hills, and have not accepted of the King's Mercy. 
You need not have recommended to me the preventing the Pretender's 
Son's escape, or the apprehending him if possible, for, to do the last, 
I should with infinite Pleasure walk bare foot from Pole to Pole, but we 
have no sort of intelligence about him, which makes me imagine that he 
is either gone to the Long Island, or that he died of misery in some of 
his hidden Places, Cap* O'Neille, the French Officer, having told me 
that when he parted from him he was covered with a scorbutic humour, 
and one M^Leod, taken since, declared that at the time he was seized he 
had the Bloody Flux ; ^ this is all I have known for some time, intelli- 
gence being very difficult to obtain, notwithstanding my promises of 
reward and recommendation to Mercy. 

I have sent the Paragraph of your Grace's Letter relating to the 
reducing of the Highland Independent Companies to Lord Loudoun, 
adding an order to it to lodge the arms taken from them at Inverness, 
till I can send for them to the Castle of Edinburgh ; I take the Liberty 
to enclose the Letter I wrote to him on that subject,^ wherein your 
Grace will see that I have taken upon me to direct him to keep in Pay a 
sufficient number of men to guard the roads and the Gorges leading to the 
Hills, till His Majesty's Pleasure is known to the contrary ; for I must 
observe to your Grace that some of those Posts are situated in the most 
miserable Places, where none of His Majesty's Troops can possibly 
subsist this winter without totally destroying them ; if this order does 
not meet with the approbation I hope it may, it will only be the expence 
of keeping a few men in the King's Service for a fortnight longer, and 
then we must take those Posts at all events ; but upon recollection 
I believe they have received their subsistance to the 24th Instant, in 
which case this can be no extraordinary expence ; I own my ignorance, 

1 Cf. No. CIV., supra. ^ Cf. The Lyon, vol. i., p. 165. 

3 Enclosure i., infra, 

DD 



210 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

having nothing to do with the private ecconomy of those Troops.^ 
I have farther directed His Lordship to compleat his Reg* as fast as 
possible, that he may have a sufficient number of men to take the duty 
at Bernera, besides sending out detachments as occasion may offer. 
I have heard his Regiment consists of no more than 400 (though his 
Comphment Rank and File should be 876), too small a number to do 
the Duty that is expected from him. 

Aneas McDonald the Banker is arrived here from Dumbarton 
Castle, and shall proceed to London under the restrictions directed 
by your Grace. ^ 

We shall begin next week (agreeable to His Majesty's Commands) 
to compleat the road from that Place to the Western Isles, forward it as 
far as we can this year, and finish it next spring ; for the badness of the 
weather in this Country will not allow us to work upon them any 
longer than the middle of October or the latter end at farthest. 

1 am very much obliged to Lord Justice Clerk for the Character he 
has given of me. I assure your Grace, I shall endeavour to live with 
him in great Friendship, and joyn in any thing that can promote His 
Majesty's quiet Possession of this Kingdom. 

There has been some differences in the shires of Aberdeen and 
Angus amongst the Inhabitants and the Military, but hope we shall be 
able to make them up without their coming to a Publick Tryall. I have 
taken care to recommend to the Officers to assist the Civill Power on 
every occasion, and to show them the greatest regard, but it will be 
necessary now and then to let them know in a modest way that we 
have, under the Command of His Royal Highness The Duke, delivered 
them from slavery, which, give me leave to say, they are already too 
apt to forget.^ 

^ Loudoun's Independent Companies had been raised in August, 1745, largely by the 
efforts of Lord President Forbes. 

2 Cf. the Duke's letter of August 22, supra, No. CVL 

^ In addition to the riot at Aberdeen to which Lord Albemarle refers, there had also 
occurred an unfortunate incident at Stirling on July 29, 1746. Lieutenant Stoyt of Howard's 
Old Buffs soundly thrashed a wig-maker's apprentice, whom he accused of impertin- 
ence, and with the sanction of his Lieutenant-Colonel, George Howard, caused him to be 
publicly whipped in the Market Place. The Magistrates applied for a warrant against Stoyt 
and Howard, and on August i the Court of Justiciary ordered the Sheriffs of the Shire to hold 
an enquiry into the matter. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 392, 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 211 

I shall be punctual in obeying your Grace's Commands in regularly 
corresponding with you, when any thing occurs for His Majesty's 
Service, or worthy your attention. 

I never doubted of the King's approbation of the instructions left 
with me by His Royal Highness, but I think it would be necessary to 
hold and confirm Gen'l Courts Martiall as my Predecessors have had, 
and which I now have by the Duke's Authority delegated to me. 

Your Grace mentions that proper orders are given for sending to 
this country Tents, Camp Necessaries and Cloathing for the Men ; the 
last we do not want, all the Foot having already put on their new 
Cloathing ; but in case of any farther Disturbance, which God forbid ! 
there will be an absolute necessity for the first, having no supply to 
take the Field in case of need. 

I send Your Grace a copy of a Certificate,^ signed by an able 
Surgeon, of the ill state of health of M^ Hugh Frazer, formerly 
secretary to Lord Lovatt, who I believe might be a materiall Evi- 
dence at his Lordships Tryall, and I understand his life is in danger 
unless his Arm is cut off. I beg to know your orders upon this subject, 
as also what is to be done with the Master of Lovatt, Major Kennedy, 
a subject of my Masters now at Fort William, M"" O'Byrne, in the 
Castle of Edinburgh, and Capt O'Neille, a very clever, sensible man, a 
Prisoner at Inverness.^ 

I congratulate your Grace with all my soul upon the compleat 
Victory gained by the Army of His Majesties Allies over the French 
and Spaniards in Italy, I wish we ma}^ have the same good news from 
Flanders, and then indeed the year 1746 would be memorable to 
Posterity and glorious to this Nation under the happy and auspicious 
Government of His Majesty. 

As I imagine it is His Majesty's Pleasure that The Perthshire 
Company under the command of Cap* Campbell should be reduced, T 
have sent them orders accordingly. 

I think it would be very proper that the additional Companies 
belonging to the Regiments in this Kingdom should be under the eye 
of the commanding Officers of their respective Regimes, I beg your 

1 Enclosure ii., infra. 

^The Master of Lovat, Kennedy and O'Neil were kept at Inverness until Nov. 12, when 
they were sent to Edinburgh. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 544, 



2t^ THE ALBEMARLE papers. 

Grace would lay this before His Majesty and let me know his Pleasure 
thereupon. 

Give me leave to inform your Grace that our Train of Artillery, 
our Stores and our Magazines at Inverness, Perth, Stirling and the 
Castle of Edinburgh are in perfect good order, and sufficient to supply 
any demands we may have in any part of this kingdom for at least two 
months, if we should have any Disturbance ; before the expiration of 
which time we might have any supplies from England. I found in the 
several Armories a great number of Arms belonging to the Regiments 
in England taken at Fontenoy and brought over here by the French,^ 
which I shall take care to send to London by the first opportunity. 

I hope your Grace will send orders to Lord Justice Clerk in 
relation to McDonald of Glengary who is confined in the Castle here, 
being charged with Treasonable Practices by People that were in 
Rebellion,^ so that we can get at no Evidence against him unless those 
People are encouraged to prosecute him, and I am ,apt to believe 
(although he is a very stupid fellow) that in this particular he may be 
wrongfully accused, as he showed a remarkable inclination to be useful 
to the King's Troops when they were at Fort Augustus and when he 
was latterly employed by me. 

I beg Pardon for troubling your Grace with this long Letter and 
am with great Respect, 

My Lord 

Your Grace's most Obedient 
Humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 

P.S. — I had forgot to mention that I enclose to your Grace a copy 
of a Letter from Lord Loudoun to me,^ and one from the Master of 
Lovatts to His Lordship.* 

Endorsed : — Rd. 5th (by Howe). 

^I.e., Lord John Drummond, in November, 1745. 

^Cf. No. LXIII., supra; Appendix, No. VIII. (Enclosure i.), infra. 

3 No. XCV., supra. * No. LXIV., supra. 



tHE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 213 

(Enclosure I.) 
The Earl of Albemarle to the Earl of Loudoun. 

Edinburgh August 27*^ 1746. 

My Lord, 

I suppose as your Lordship was at Inverness the 21^*, the 
time appointed to put those orders in execution I left with you against 
M^ Barrisdale and his country, is the reason I have not heard of your 
success in that affair, nor of the parties posted according to my Direc- 
tions for the security of the Road and the preventing the provisions 
being carried from the Low Countries into the Hills, both accounts I 
expect with impatience from you ; in the meantime I must acquaint 
your Lordship I have had no answer from His Royal Highness about 
your letter, but an Order from His Majesty, thro' the Duke of Newcastle, 
to reduce all the Independent Companys under your Command, which I 
beg you will comply with forthwith, taking all the Arms from them, 
which you will be pleased to lodge at Inverness in the care of General 
Blakeney. I send you enclosed the words of his Grace's Letter to me 
on this occasion, but as it is necessary to continue the Posts ^ that we 
first agreed on, I shall take upon myself to direct you to keep the small 
Number of men in Pay, as well as the Officers necessary to command 
them, 'till I have represented it to His Majesty and received his orders 
thereupon, leaving it with your Lordship to do that Duty either by 
Detachments or Companys as you shall judge proper. Y^ last seems 
to be the most regular method, and if it should be thought so by you, I 
leave it to your choice to continue such as you think the fittest. Two 
Companies, or an equivalent to that Number, will be (I should think) 
more than sufficient to answer that Service. 

As by this reduction you will be very much weakened at Fort 
Augustus, it will be absolutely necessary that your Lordship should 
forthwith compleat your Reg* out of the best men of the Companys 
that are reduced, which will not only be a sufficient Number to do duty 
at that Place, but also enable you to send Detachments now and then 
from thence where you shall think it necessary. 

(Signed) ALBEMARLE. 

Endorsed : — No i. in the Earl of Albemarle's of Sep* i, 1746. 

1 They are specified in No. CLV., supra. 



il,4 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

(Enclostire II.) 

Certificate of Hugh Fraser's State of Health. 

As Mr [Hugh] Fraser^ has several bones to come out of his 
Arm, and is in a bad State of Body otherwise, being much weakened by 
violent sweatings and Looseness for these three weeks past, and seems 
to have but little chance for doing well, it is my opinion that there will 
be great danger in moving him. 

(Signed) ARTH. BAYNES, Surgeon. 

Inverness Aug^' 22<^ 1746. 

Endorsed : — No 2. in the Earl of Albemarle's of Sep* i, 1746. 



CLIX. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh September 6*^ 1746. 
My Lord, 

I am one of those, that notwithstanding the hopes enter- 
tained by most that this Kingdom was restored to Peace and quietness, 
allways feared from the bad inclination of the people in most of the 
Northern Counties and from their Stubborn, inveterate disposition of 
mind, nothing coud Effect it but laying the whole Country waste and 
in ashes, and removing all the Inhabitants (excepting a few) out of the 
Kingdom ; as a proof that my Suspicions were well grounded, I send 
your Grace the two enclosed informations, the one given me by Lord 
Justice Clerk, the other sent me by Lord Loudoun. I have sent orders 
to His Lordship, to Lord Sempill and General Skelton, to act at this 
Juncture w* the utmost diligence and Severity, in order to release M' 
Garden of Troup, to detect and punish those who carried him off and 
murder'd poor Capt Munro, who was returning from putting my orders 

1 Hugh Fraser, Lord Lovat's secretary, had been brought in a prisoner to Fort Augustus 
by a party of Kingston's Horse on July 2, 1746. — Scots Magazine, vol, viii., p. 339. His 
evidence against Lovat is in ibid., vol. ix., p. no. 

^S. P. Scotland, Geo. II, Bundle 34. No. 19. 



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in execution against Barrisdile and his Country, and who had the 
Character of an honest brave man and well affected to His Majesty; 
sometime before his Death he had sent a recommendation in favour of 
two of his near relations to Lord Loudoun, upon a Supposition that his 
Company was not to be reduced, but as that may be done now in 
pursuance of the King's Commands, I hope His Majesty will think of 
them in some other Shape, for the Sake of his Memory and of S"" 
Robert Munroe's, Men never to be parallell'd in the hills again. 

I have had no answer from Lord Loudoun to my Letter of the 27th 
August, wherein I directed him to reduce the Independant Companies. 

I have received just now a long dispatch from Major General 
Campbell to keep on Foot four hundred Argyleshire men, founded 
upon Petitions from Gentlemen of the Country, w^h are now Copying 
and will be sent to your Grace next Post ; ^ as it appears to me to be a 
Scheme entirely grounded for the Defence of the Argyle Country, I 
shall not presume to give my thoughts thereupon, but shall beg of your 
Grace to lay them before His Majesty, and shall write to the General 
to address himself to your Grace for his instructions ; sometime agoe 
he thought (though he had His Royal Highness's Commands to reduce 
the Argyle Shire men) he had no Authority to break the officers, 
because they had His Majesty's Commission, and that without a Sign 
Manual he had not a Sufficient Power so to doe, but I removed his 
Doubts on that Subject. 

I enclose^ Your Grace the returns of the Fifteen Battalions, 
wherein His Majesty will see that we encrease in our Numbers and 
hope we shall be able to compleat them before the Spring ; by my next 
I shall send you the State of the Dragoons, which I coud not now 
collect, as they are marching to their Grass Quarters from the Sea 
Coast, where they were before we left Fort Augustus. 
I am 

with the greatest Respect 

My Lord 
Your Grace's most obedient Serv* 

ALBEMARLE. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

I No. CLXL (Enclosure ii.), infra. 2 Nq. CLVI., supra. 



2l6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

(Enclosure I.) 

Relation Concerning the Death of Captain Monro 
of culcairn. 

The Detachment^ under Cap* Geo. Munro of Culcairn on 
their march alongst the North side of Locharkag the 31st of August 
1746, halted to collect their Body, their Rear being at a Distance on 
acc^ of the narrowness of the Road and the driving of Cattle. He 
thereafter giving orders to march, rode up to the advanced Guard and 
went with them for about 15 minutes ; then coming into a road 'twixt a 
wood and the Loch, he was shot by a fellow from an eminence in the 
Wood.2 

The Advanced Guard immediately crowding about the Body, the 
ground where the Shot came from being perpendicular from the Road, 
and the Guard being obliged to go about 'ere they enter'd the wood, 
made it a few minutes 'ere there was any pursuit after the Murderer, 
By w^^ means, and as the wood was thick intermixed with Fearns and 
long hether, he made his escape in spite of the most narrow Search. 

Soon after a man, a woman and a boy appear'd in the road where 
the Detachment were marching, who being made prisoners and ex- 
amined, The woman and boy declared absolute Ignorance of the 
Murder, and by all appearance what they said seem'd to be Truth. The 
man declared he had gone into the Wood to Shun the Detachment 
because he had no pass or protection, and that on his Seeing a party 
sent into the wood, he came out rather than he shoud be taken there, 
That he knew nothing of any person being concerned in the Murder, 
but that he knew there was a Father and Brother to the man lately 
killed by the Detachment of Lord Loudoun's under Capt. Grant's Com- 
mand, who resorted that Neighbourhood, and that he had heard them 
threaten revenge on that AccS and therefore he Supposed one of them 
must have been the Murderer.^ The Woman and boy did not seem to 

^ It consisted of Monroes, Rosses, and Macleods. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 394. 

^According to the Scots Magazine (vol. viii., p. 394), Monro was held in conversation 
by a woman, who had enquired for him, and so drew him from among his men. 

^Cf. Lord Albemarle's letter of October 15, infra, No. CLXXII. ; Enclosure i. in his 
letter of November 15, infra, No. CLXXVIII. ; Enclosure in his letter of Dec. 15, infra, 
No. CLXXXIV. ; Enclosure ii. in his letter of Dec. 20, infra. No. CLXXXVII. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 217 

have had any Concern in this matter and the man by his Countenance 
and behaviour seem'd also innocent.^ 

Notwithstanding, as by them there might be means of discovering 
the persons concerned, Capt. Ross, who Commanded the Detachment 
after Culkairn was killed, thought proper to carry those three persons 
prisoners to the Earl of Loudoun at Fort Augustus. 

(Sign'd) WILLIAM ROSS. 

GEORGE MACKAY. 
ALEXR GRANT. 

Endorsed: — (i) in the Earl of Albemarle's Letter of Sept, 6th 1746. 

(Enclosure II.) 

Information Concerning Alexander Garden of Troup. 

On Sunday the 31st of August a party of Arm'd Rebels to 
the number of about 12, who appeared to be Highlanders, Commanded by 
a Young Man who appeared to be about 30 and look't like a Gentleman 
and a low Countryman, Came about 10 a Clock at night to the House 
of Troop eight Miles to the East of Banff, where they seized Alexander 
Garden of Troup ^ and made a demand of 5^2000 sterling. And as he 
had not that sum by him They forced him to write to some of his friends 
to raise it and threatned to put him to death if it was not paid upon 
the 3<* at Midday. They seized all his papers of value and his fathers 
and his Acco* with the Yorkbuilding Company and about ;^ioo of 
money. All which papers and money they carried with them, and also 
carried M^ Garden of Troop prisoner alongst with them. They set out 
from his house about one a Clock on Monday morning and took the 
road by the Hills of Renny or North. They discharged on pain of 
death any of Troup's family to stir from home except two of his 
Servants, James Robertson and John Philp, whom 'tis probable were 
employed to deliver Troups letters for raising the money, for they 
ordered these two Servants to meet them in the Glen of North above 
Whitelumbs on Wednesday betwixt two and four and to Call at John 

1 He is described as a Cameron in Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 394. 
2" They went to Mr. Gairden's bedside," says the Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 394. 

EE 



2l8 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Thomson's houvse in that Glen, where they shou'd meet or leave a 
direction where they were to be found. Accordingly the Servants found 
a note there to desire them to come up the Glen. And as they went 
About a mile from that house they saw one of the Rebels, who retired 
before them from Hill to Hill till dark and then the Servants returned 
to Strathbogie. 

Auchry, Shives, Provost Innes and John Gordon came to Strath- 
bogie to try to releive Troup, but not being able to do it, on the 4* 
Some of them went to Aberdeen and others to Banff to apply to the 
Commanding Officers for assistance. 

John Philp, Servant to Troup, heard the Young Man who Com- 
manded the Rebels say that tho' he received the ;^2ooo it was small to 
divide among so many Noble men and Gentlemen whose houses were 
burnt, and his among the rest, and heard some of the party say that 
there were other three in the same Circumstances, tho' none of them 
within 20 miles.^ 

N.B. — This Gentleman's house lay between Bamff and Peterhead, 
at both which Places Dejean's Reg* is Quartered. 

Endorsed : — Information concerning Mr Garden of Troup given to 
Lord Albemarle by Lord Justice Clerk. 
(2) in the Earl of Albemarle's Letter 
of Sept. 6, 1746. 

(Enclosure III.) 
The Memorial of Captain George Monro of Culcairn. 

To the Right Hon^e The Earle of Loudone, &c. 
Humbly sheweth. 

That being Informd That Lieut. Adam Gordon (of Ardoch) 
of My Independent Company is to be advanced To a Company in one 
of the Marching Regiments ; The Memorialist prays That your LoP get 
the sd Lieutenancy to Hugh Munro of Achanny, present Enseigne in 
the sd Company, and the Enseignsie To John Munro of Killichoran, a 

1 Garden of Troup was released on September 6. Cf. No. CXLI, and App. No. XL. 
(Enclosure vii.), infra, 



THE ALIbEMARLE PAPERS. 219 

person Wiell affected to his Majesties person and Government, and who 
apeard under arms w*^ the Memoriallist for the Government at the 
begining of this Rebellion, under the Command of Sir John Cope, and 
the Memorialist shall ever pray. 

G. W. MUNRO. 

Endorsed : — In the E. of Albemarle's Letter of Sept. 6, 1746. 



CLX. 

Captain Fergusson to the Earl of Albemarle.^ 

My Lord, 

I have been Inform'd Your Lordship has received A Letter 
from Cap' Pow^ell Att Bernera,^ wherein he intimats to Your Lordship 
that it was by my advice, or rather that I deliver'd him an Order from 
Major General Campbell to apprehend McDonald of Barrisdale, in Con- 
sequence of which he sent a party to apprehend him before the 
expiration of the time Mention'd in Your Lordships protection ; as the 
Said person has made his escape, which may possibly be attributed to 
the allarm given him by the party sent to apprehend him, I think it 
necessary for my own justification, Lest my imprudence show'd be 
deem'd the cause of his escape, to Signifie to Your Lordship that I 
never receiv'd any such Orders from Gen^ Campbell, nor did I give him 
any to that purpose nor so much as advise him to it. 

My Lord 
Your Lordships Most Obedient Humble Serv* 



^ct-^Ct^ ^^^ Cc/^^er9i.-{^ 



Furnace Sept' y^ 8th 1746. 
In Leith Road. 

1 Feildm MSS. - No. CXLV. , supra. 



iio TtiE albemArle papers. 

CLXI. 
The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edin' Sept gth 1746. 

My Lord, 

Since my last Letter to your Grace, I have got the several 
Papers received from Gen^l Campbell copied, which I enclose to you, 
with an extract of my Letter in answer to his, as also a Return of the 
Five Regts of Dragoons. 

To my great surprise I have had no account or answer from Lord 
Loudoun to mine of the 27* of the last month, with His Majesty's 
orders for the reduction of the Independent Companies, but have heard 
from the North for certain that the Pretender's son sailed in a small 
French Cutter from the Western Coast in Kintaill in the night of the 
ig* of last month.^ 

I hope the steps I have taken for detecting the Murderer of Capt 
Munro will prove effectual, as those have for the releasing of M"^ Garden 
of Troup ; the Rebels finding themselves close pursued, released him on 
Saturday night at ten o'Clock, having only taken from him ;iri43, but if 
they think I have done with them for showing this mark of Indulgence, 
they are mistaken, for I will have them dead or alive, for so audacious 
an Act was never committed. 

1 beg that you lay before His Majesty and receive his orders that 
the Board of Ordnance may contract for bed and bedding for Five 
Companies doing duty in the Castle, of the Regt that is Quartered in 
the Cannon Gate,^ the Company of Invalids not being sufficient for the 
defence or even the duty of it. The Barracks lately built by order of 
Lieut Gen^i Guest are very good and can contain that number; this 
will effectually secure that Important Fortress, and remove a great 

^S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34, No. 21. 

2 Lord Albemarle's information is, as usual, incorrect. On August 19 the Prince was 
near Loch Arkaig. Cf. The Rising of 1745, p. 212. 

* Lee's. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 221 

number of men out of the worst Quarters existing, where they only 
imbibe Principles of Jacobitism. 

I am with the greatest respect 
My Lord, Your Grace's 

Most Obedient Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
Endorsed : — Rd. 12 (by Express). 



(Enclosure /.) 

Major-General Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle. 

Inverary, Sep' 3, 1746. 
My Lord, 

Some papers necessary to be sent to Lord Justice Clerk 
could not be got transcribed till this day, which gives me an opportunity 
of telling your Lordship that I find my Son's Letter did not fully explain 
the Memorials sent you enclosed, which I know were calculated to be 
sent to London — -You must know the connection I have with Dumbar- 
ton and Argyleshire. My father and I have served as Members of 
Parliament for the first ever Since the Union, and as to the latter it 
plainly appears the Duke of Argyle has a very considerable Interest 
amongst the Gentlemen, many of which have served as Officers during 
this unnatural Rebellion without receiving or desiring of one farthing 
pay ; such people as those ought to be humoured in their own way, and 
it is for this reason only that I received the Memorials which Your 
Lordship has the Trouble of, as the proper Channell through which 
any application of this kind should go, and if I give your Lordship any 
unnecessary trouble in such like matters, you must know it only pro- 
ceeds from the respect and regard I have for a man I love and esteem ; 
after telling you this, I may say I am &c. 

(Signed) JOHN CAMPBELL.^ 

^ MajOT-General Campbell and the Argyllshire militia returned to Inveraray to disband 
on August 17, having captured some three thousand stand of arms from the rebels' country. — 
Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 393. The regiment had been on service since January, 1746, 
when it joined Hawley's army immediately before the battle of Falkirk. — Ibid., vol. vii., p. 35. 



222 the albemarle papers. 

Extract of Lord Albemarle's Answer. 

Edinb. Sep^ 8, 1746. 

The Memorials, Letters, and the Scheme ^ for forming a 
Chain from Loch Shiel to the Water of Leven by Strontian and other 
places, I have transmitted to the Duke of Newcastle, to whom I beg 
the favour of you to apply on that head, for tho' I think such a Chain 
might be of use to prevent the Depredations of the Thieves in your 
Neighbourhood, the King's Commands to you by His Royal Highness 
being to reduce all the Men and Officers raised in Argyleshire, without 
an Authority (at least to my knowledge) to keep any on pay or form out 
of their Number any independent Companies, puts it out of my power 
to give you any advice thereupon. 

Endorsed : — Major Gen^^ Campbell's Letter to h^ Albemarle with 
an Extract from his Lordship's Answer — 
In the Earl of Albemarle's of Sep"^ 9, 1746. 

{Enclosure II.) 
Memorial of the Justices of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenants 

AND OTHERS PROPRIETORS IN ARGYLESHIRE, CONVEN'D AT 

Inveraray the 2oth day of August, 1746. 

To The Honble Major General John Campbell. 

When we the Proprietors in Argyleshire reflect how far this 
unnatural Rebellion, with its dismal consequences, had spread over 
those parts of His Majesty's Dominions, we cannot but be struck with 
the deepest sense of Gratitude for our happy Deliverance from the 
wicked designs and (even) threatnings of these Rebellious and flagitious 
people, which under God we chiefly owe to the great Wisdom and 
Goodness of His Majesty in sending His Royal Highness the Duke to 
Command the Army sent to reduce them to obedience. 

Tho' we consider the Rebellion as Extinguished and the Actors 
greatly distressed by His Majesty's Troops, yet we cannot allow our- 
selves to believe that peace and Tranquility can for some time be 

1 Enclosure iii., infra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 223 

perfectly restored ; for while the Pretender's Son is within His 
Majesty's Dominions, and several of the Rebel Chiefs and Commanders 
lurking in the Hills, they will be forming new schemes and Intrigues, 
and their followers will continue in Arms and resort to them. These 
circiimstances must disturb and give uneasiness to His Majesty's Loyal 
Subjects. 

We the Memorialists do not expect that in the Act now under the 
Consideration of Parliament, for disarming the Highlands, this shire 
will be exempted, But in that case the Dutifull and Loyal Subjects will 
deliver up their Arms, while the obstinate and Rebellious will retain 
theirs ; Whereby the first will be exposed in various ways to the con- 
tinual insults of the latter. 

The Great distress the Rebels have justly brought upon themselves 
give us the deepest apprehensions that disorders and depredations must 
ensue. They are now quite destitute of the necessarj^s of Life, from 
whence it is natural to imagine they will supply themselves whenever 
they have an opportunity. 

We hope we need not mention to you the Chearfull and Firm 
behaviour of the people of this shire in His Majesty's Service, you have 
been an Eye Witness to it, and know how highly the Rebels threatned 
Resentment. 

While the men of this shire were kept in the Service we were 
under no fears or alarms, but now that we are informed you are about 
to dismiss all the Troops under your command. We dread we may 
soon feel the Resentment of our Declared Enemies. We are too near 
them not to be alarmed, while they have it in their power to hurt us. 
We must therefore hope that you will Intercede for us with His 
Majesty, that some of the Independent Companys in the West of 
Scotland may be kept on foot sometime longer, as it will not only 
secure us from the Insults and Depredations of our Desperate and 
Justly distressed Neighbours, but more particularly secure the peace of 
the Western Highlands. 

Signed — Arch. Campbell of Jura Neill Campbell, 

Neill Campbell of Dunstafnage Duntroon. 

Dept^y Lieut. John Campbell, 

Jo. Campbell, of Barcaldine Achaderrery. 
Depty Lieut. 



224 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 



Donald McNeill of Collonsay 
Lauch. McLean of Kingirloch, 
Colen Campbell of Skepness. 
Robert Campbell, Asknish. 
Dun. Campbell, Southhall. 
Neil Campbell, Achinwilline. 
David Campbell, Donlokin. 
Dug. Campbell, Achachrossan 
Neill M^Kellar, Drumfin. 
Rob* Campbell, Kintraes. 
Dan^ Campbell, Dergachy. 
Dug. Campbell, Cruachan. 
Alexr Campbell, Octomore. 



James Campbell, 

Inveresragan. 
John Clerk, Braleckan. 
Arch. Campbell, 

Stonfield, 
Depty Sheriff of Argyll- 
Shire. 
Dun. Campbell, 

Inveraw, D^y Lieut. 
Arch. Campbell, 
Inver Awer, D^y Lieut. 
Arch. Campbell, 
Knockbuy, D^y Lieut. 
Co. Campbell, Carwhine. 
Donald Campbell, Airds, D^y Lieut. 
John Samwre Otter, D^y Lieut. 
Jas. Campbell, Rashoyllie. 
Alex"" Duncanson of Keills. 
Duncan Fisher of Duren. 
Alexr Campbell, Achingaran. 
John Campbell, Killdallorg. 
Co. Campbell, Ederline. 



Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's of Sepr 9, 1746. 



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CLXII. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh September 13th 1746. 
My Lord, 

I am ashamed of the little connexion your Grace will find in 
the intelligence I transmit to you, which is owing to the disaffection of 
those inhabiting North of this Place, for notwithstanding all the hopes 
and Encouragement I give them, I can procure none from those parts 
to be depended upon ; in my last I mentioned a certainty of the 
Pretender's son being sailed in a Cutter from the Coast of Kintaih 
which not only by the enclosed Original Papers I send your Grace 
proves false, but also that the Spirit of the Rebels are again rising, and 
that they talk of assembling in a body, which I wish was true, for we 
are so well provided (Camp necessaries excepted) that we could soon 
give them a meeting and extirpate the race of them ; but when one 
considers their want of Chiefs, their being unprovided with subsistence, 
this Report can only be occasioned by mad People or infatuated fools, 
or perhaps by some of the Argyllshire Gentlemen to keep a body of 
their men in Pay for the Defence of their country against stealers of 
Cattle. 

I send your Grace an estimate of what is wanting to compleat the 
Five Companies of Lee's Regiment with Bedding, who are now in the 
Castle without any, which I hope you will be so good to procure us. 

If I should not write to you in a Post or two, I hope you will 
excuse me, as I propose setting out on Tuesday next for Stirling to 
attend the Court Martiall on Major Wentworth and other Officers who 
are to be tried for the Surrendry of Fort Augustus, and review the 
Regiments quartered there and on the Road thither, and perhaps I 
shall take Glasgow in my way back to see the North British Fuziliers^ 
and the progress we make on the Roads, which by the badness of the 
weather (by an account I had from Major Caulfield) go on very slowly. 

As I was going to close my Letter I received one from the Earl of 

1 S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 22. 

2 Campbell's Scots Fusiliers, now the 21st Foot. 



22S THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Loudoun, a Copy of which I enclose to your Grace, as it relates to the 
orders I had for reducing the Independant Companys ; by it you will 
see that my intelligence of the last Post about the Pretender's Son 
being sailed is again confirmed ; what to believe I cannot tell. 

I am with the greatest Respect 
My Lord 
Your Grace's most Obedient humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. ig^h. 

{Enclosure I.) , 

Donald Campbell to Archibald Campbell. 

Sir, 

Some time ago I writ to Airds that People's Heads in this 
Country were much taken up with a story whispered about among them, 
That there was lately a great deal of Treasure landed in Scotland^ — ^But 
where I could not learn. In a little time thereafter it was also 
whispered, but very privately, that the young Pretender and Lochiele 
were sculking about the Breas of Locharkaig and Auchnacarry — As a 
certain Lady writ about this last Particular, I did not think it needful 
to trouble the General or you with it — But ever since I have been 
entirely taken up, endeavouring to get certain intelligence concerning 
this matter ; and all I can say after all my pains is, that I have that 
story told me by two pretty good Authors from the Coast of Morvern 
for certain truth, as well as by other two in this Country whose Intelli- 
gence I sometimes rely on. 

I also have it affirmed to me for truth, that Lochiele very lately 
sent a Message to his Friends up and down Lochaber and Morvern to 
be in readiness, for that they would see him soon in the Field — And 

1 About May i, 1746, two French ships succeeded in landing a large sum of money in 
Lochnanuagh, whence it was conveyed to Murray of Broughton's charge at Loch Arkaig. Cf. 
The Lyon, vol. iii., p. 383; Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 238; Lang, Companions 0/ Pickle, 
chap. vi. 



THE Albemarle papers. 229 

some will have it that there was a pretty throng gathering of men lately 
near Auchnacarry — For my own Part I cannot believe this last 
Particular — But for the young Pretender's being in Lochaber Sculking 
about with Lochiele, I have no doubt of it.^ For on Sunday last 
William Steuart, Ardsheal's Cousin, went up to Lochaber and promised 
soon to send his Friends in this Countrey word of what he could learn. 
And two days thereafter young Fasnacloich and his brother with four 
Servants followed M'' Steuart, and the night before last John More 
M^Coll, William Steuart's Servant, returned with a Docquet of Letters 
directed, as I was told, for Ardsheal. The fellow went streight towards 
the Breas of Fasnacloich,^ which confirms me in the belief that 
Ardsheal is still lurking about the Braes of Glencreran as I mentioned 
in my last, tho' he keeps himself so very quiet that all this week I could 
get no certain Intelligence about him. 

What cause the Rebels have to rejoice at Present I know not ; but 
it is certain that those of this Countrey, as well as the people of Loch- 
aber and Morvern, are in very high spirits, and they cannot conceal it 
— You may however expect to hear soon from me. 

I am, Sir 
Your most obed^ humble Servant 

DON. CAMPBELL. 
Island Stalker Castle, 
5th September 1746, 
late at Night. 

I return the inclosed Contract &c. Signed as directed. 
To Archibald Campbell Esquire 
Sheriff of Argyleshire at 
Inveraray. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's of Sept j^, 1746. 

^ The writer's information was quite correct. The Prince had joined Lochiel on August 
30 in Benalder, Cluny came to them there on September i, — Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 68. 
'^I.e., Fasnakyle. 



2^0 THE Albemarle papers. 

(Enclosure II.) 
Donald Campbell [?] to Archibald Campbell. 

Sepr 6th 1746. 

Sir, 

I am this Moment put into a pannick which I think should 
be communicated to General Campbell. The matter is as follows — 

Colo John Roy Stewart having been sent by the Pretender after his 
overthrow at Culloden to France with the Tydings, he returned a fourth- 
night ago, and landed at Lochbroon or Polue, with upwards of ^£"20,000 
in gold, and above a dozen of Officers — I have not heard the number of 
private men, but certain it is that Lochiel and his prince are still in 
Lochaber ; and notice is sent to all their Friends to be ready at an 
hours warning. Colo Stewart has likewise joined Lochiele's Gang in 
the Braes of Locharkaig.^ My Neighbours are turned high and mighty. 
My great fear is that Lord Loudoun will be surprized at Fort Augustus 
by the Rebels. 

Allow me to beg you will make your own prudent use of this con- 
fused intelligence. I am promised more soon on the same subject ; 
how soon it comes my Length it shall be sent to you. I am Sir 

Your most humble Servant 

I could give you a number of reasons for continuing a Garrison at 
Ellanstalker. No doubt you have heard that Munroe of Coulcairn is 
shot in Lochaber.^ 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's of Sep^ 13, 1746. 

(Enclosure III.) 

James Paterson to Lieutenant-General Handasyde. 

Sir, 

I never will have it in my power to serve you as you have 
served me, but I pray I may have an opportunity of showing my grate- 

1 Stewart joined the Prince in Benalder on Sept. 13. Cf. The Lyon, vol. iii., p. 43. 
2C/. No. CLIX. {Enclosure i.), supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 23 1 

ful acknowledgments, and I will cheerfully doe it. — Since parting from 
you I have a letter from my Son-in-Law, young M^kinnon, and he tells 
me he is informed that the young pretender just now is hid underneath 
ground in a sort of Cave^ in the Isle of Mull near the house of Jerlvick 
Mclean, whose youngest son it seems is with him ; this he says he had 
from the womans father who carried meat to him several times ; this I 
thought proper to let you know for your own Information, and am with 
the highest regard and esteem, Sir 

Your most obliged and most 

obedient humble Servant 

JA. PATERSON. 
1/3 hour past 6 o'C'k. 

Sepr 12, 1746. 
To The Honble Lieut. General Handysyd at his house nigh Gros- 
venor Square, London. 

Endorsed : — Copy sent to the Earl of Albemarle Sep* 13, 1746. 

(Enclosure IV.) 

The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albemarle. 

Fort Augustus Sep^ g* 1746. 
My Lord, 

I have the honour of two Letters from your Lordship, the 
one of the 27* of August by the Post, the other of the 31st by express, 
by which I received your Lordship's orders to reduce the Independant 
Companies, but as your Lordship gave no other directions in that 
matter but to take all the Arms from them I was at some loss how to 
behave in other respects, particularly in what allowance to give them 
when reduced to carry them home, on which point I immediately con- 
sulted Majr Geni Blakeney, and we agreed that as your Lordship had 
given no directions in that matter, that I was to follow the orders I 
received from His Royal Highness, when the Companies were reduced 

1 The Prince was, indeed, on this date in Cluny's " Cage " — but it was in Benalder and 
not in Mull. Cf. The Rising of 1745, p. 216 ; Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 69. In consequence of 
Paterson's information, however, a detachment was sent to Mull to search for the Prince. Cf. 
No. CLXIV., infra. 



232 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

in June from loo to 70, which was to give the men then discharged one 
Weeks pay to carry them home. This I have now done and hope your 
Lordship will approve of it. 

On Sunday the 7th i reduced the 7 Companies here and have sent 
orders to the Isle of Sky to reduce the 6 Companies there, with orders 
to forward my Letter from thence to the Lewes with orders to reduce 
that Company, By an Express, who is to bring me notice when that 
Letter is delivered that I may from that date the reduction of that 
Company. 

As your Lordship has ordered me to keep as many of the Com- 
panies as will be sufficient to occupy the Posts on the Roads ordered 
by your Lordship before you left this, and also that you think two 
Companies will be more than sufficient for that purpose, 

I beg leave to put your Lordship in mind that by that order of 
which I sent your Lordship a Copy, there are besides the two Com- 
panies, three Serjeants, one Corporal and forty four men detached from 
hence, besides other parties on the road to Fort William I have since 
been obliged to add. 

In consequence of this order I have kept the two eldest Companies, 
that is, those that joined me first, Cap* Mo[n]ro's, which is gone to relieve 
Cap*^ Mackay's at Ruthven, and Cap* Gun's, which is gone to relieve 
Cap* Sutherland's at Tay Bridge ; these two Companies I have ordered 
to Inverness as 'tis as near to them and saves the carriage of the Arms, 
where they shall be reduced the moment they arrive. 

I send your Lordship a Return of the Regiment and the Indepen- 
dant Companies as they stood last week ; ^ by mistake the Return of this 
week for the Regiment is not ready and the Post is just going out, but 
I hope by next week's Return there will be a considerable alteration, 
as we are very busy recruiting out of the Reduced men of the Indepen- 
dent Companies, and I assure your Lordship no pains shall be spared 
to compleat the Regiment as soon as possible. 

By the reduction of the Companies there is a very great incon- 
venience happens to me here in carrying on the Service ; whilst they 
remained I had a number of horses taken by them from the Rebels, 
which served to carry provisions with all detachments that marched, 
but as they are now going home, I am obliged to sell them that the 

iNo. ChYU., supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 233 

money may be divided, by which I am entirely deprived of that assist- 
ance, and to obviate this difficulty in the mean time I have ordered each 
Company of the Regiment to provide themselves with three Country 
horses to be ready to carry provisions whenever they march. I hope 
your Lordship will approve of this as I could not carry on the Service 
without it, and that you will not think it unreasonable that I should 
apply to your Lordship for the usual allowance of Baggage money to 
indemnifie the officers for this expence, which they have never yet 
received ; this I shall do by next Post. 

I am very sorry to find your Lordship disapproves so much of my 
going to Inverness to settle about the Meal, which your Lordship 
thinks might have been done so easily. I can only say in my own 
justification that I have not been able to settle it yet, and that with all 
the pains I could take. I was four and twenty hours without one Peck 
in the Garrison and was obliged to bring it on horseback at last, and I 
doe assure your Lordship that whilst you think.it necessary for me to 
be here, I will not leave it for an hour for Pleasure. 

I have formerly sent your Lordship an account of what happened 
in Knodiart, and have only to add that Barrisdile made his escape with 
his son in a Boat and went Southward along the Coast and I have 
heard nothing of him since.^ 

I have heard nothing of the Pretender but by two men from 
Knodiart who had surrendered their Arms at Bernera, and on that 
imagined they might have been received into the Troops ; those your 
Lordship may be sure I did not take ; they told me that they had a 
report about a fortnight ago the young pretender got off in a small 
vessell and was taken by the French at Sea, by which I imagine they 
mean got into a French Privatier at Sea ; ^ this is all I have been able 
to learn, but I have people out for intelligence of him. 

I am &c. 
(Signed) LOUDOUN. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Sepr 13, 1746. 

1 Cf. No. CXLV. and CLX., supya. 

2" It was talked about the beginning of September, that he [the Prince] had imbarked, 
some weeks before, in the Murray frith, on board a French privatier which hovered for him 
some time off the Orkneys, and that another personated him for a while after he was gone." — 
Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 444. 

GG 



234 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 



(Enclosure V.) 

An Estimate of Barrack Bedding for Edinburgh Castle. 

An Estimate of Barrack Bedding requisite for the Accomodation 
of five Companies of Foot, with an Acco* of How Much of The Above 
Bedding are now (in Good order) in Edinburgh Castle, and what is 
wanted to Compleat Said Estimate. 



Men. Sergts. Corpls, Drumrs. 

To Accomodate 7o 3 3 2 in all. 

78 Men will require 49 Beds, — 
which for 5 Companys is 
245- 

To 245 Beds, with one Coverlet, two pair Blankets, Two pair Sheets, 
one Bolster and one Bed-tick to each Bed is 

Now in the Garrison of Edinburgh Castle in Good order 

Wanting to Compleat the Above Estimate of Accommodation for 
five marching Companys 





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165 


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P. ROBT GRIFFITH. 

In absence of the Barrack Master. 
Edinburgh Castle, 
12 Sepr 1746. 

Endorsed : — Sent to the Masf Gen^ of the Ordnance the 2^^^. 



CLXIIL 

The Earl of Albemarle to Andrew Stone.^ 



S>^ 



Edinburgh, Sep"^ y^ 20*^^ 1746. 



I received at Sterling with infinite satisfaction the agreeable 
news of the surrender of Genoa, ye success of y^ Austrian and Piedmon- 
tese Armies in Italy, and of the Allyes having repass'd the Maese — The 
orders I received at ye same time by Express to send to the Isle of Mull 



^S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 34. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 235 

are put in execution, and I hope to hear they may prove successful, 
the' I don't flatter myself with it, for it is not to be supposed that the 
Pretender's Son would continue so long in y^ same place. I must 
observe to you that M"" M'^Kinnon, y^ author of y^ Letter to M"" Patersone ^ 
which Lt General Handesyd gave the Duke of Newcastle, is an Excise 
Officer at Leith, and it is somewhat odd that this well affected man 
should chuse to send the Intelligence to his Father-in-Law in England 
without ever acquainting L. J. C. or me with it; which has occasioned 
a delay in the search of twelve days — Mais en ecosse evenements en 
sont pas extraordinaire — I flatter myself with y^ hopes of receiving 
(according to His Grace's promise) answers to the several questions I 
have asked him in my former Letters. I am greatly obliged to my 
Lord Duke for acquainting me with the intentions proposed by this 
Embarkation, and he may be assured that I shall not make y^ Discovery, 
tho' it is a thing publickly surmised and talked of by every body here.^ 

I am with the greatest regard 
S^ 
Your most obedient humble Serv* 

ALBEMARLE. 
To Andrew Stone Esq. 

Endorsed: — Rd. 26. 



CLXIV, 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinr Sepr 23d 1746. 
My Lord, 

By the enclosed intelligence received from different parts of 
the North, your Grace will see (if they are to be credited) that the 
Rebellion is not yet at an end. I have sent out People ever}' where to 
have the confirmation of the Reports, and shall prepare everything 

^Cf. No. CLXn. (Enclosure iii.), supra. 

^ Lord Albemarle refers to the contemplated reduction of the Scottish military establish- 
ment, which took place early in 1747. 

'■S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 25. 



236 



THfe al^emArle papers. 



accordingly. I have acquainted Commodore Smith, who is sick in this 
Town, with every thing I have heard, that he may send his orders to 
the Western Coast for the Men of War to act their part, but I fear 
their numbers are small, and the largest of them a Twenty Gun ship ; 
whatever I hear further on this Subject shall be transmitted to your 
Grace by express. 

A Detachment has gone to Mull, in consequence of the intimation 
your Grace gave me in M^ Stone's Letter,^ but next to a certainty I am 
persuaded the Pretender's Son is not in that Island. 

Major Genii Campbell is still in Argyleshire, where (since not gone 
to London) I think he had better remain till we know the truth of these 
Reports. 

I am with the greatest Respect 
My Lord 
Your Graces most Obedient Humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 

P.S. — Time not allowing me to let the Commodore copy this 
intelligence, he has begged that your Grace will let the Lords of the 
Admiralty see it. Upon carefully perusing these several Pieces of 
intelligence, I am of opinion that they mean to carry off the Pretender's 
Son and to give us no farther trouble for the present. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 26^^ (by Jackson). 

(Enclosure.) 



Intelligence 
from the 
Island of 
Barra, dated 
Sepr 13th. 



Intelligence. 

On the 10* Instant Information came from South Uist that 
Two French Privatiers,^ one of thirty and the other Twenty Guns,^ well 
mann'd, were arrived there in quest of the Young Pretender. The 

1 Cf. No. CLXII. (Enclosure iii.), supra. 

2 The Prince de Conti and UHetireux. Under the direction of Colonel Warren 
they had sailed from France in order to discover and rescue the Prince. Cf. Blaikie' 
Itinerary, p. 102. 

^ The armament of the two vessels varies considerably in the various statements 
furnished by spies regarding them. The Prince, whom they carried from Scotland on Sep- 
tember 20, describes them as carrying thirty-six and thirty-two guns respectively. Cf. his 
letter to Cluny in The Rising of 1745, p. 219. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 237 

Crew of those ships said six others were expected on the same errand. 
They landed at Loch Boisdale, took away some men whom they met 
and sailed for the main. 

The Independant Companies assembled from Benbicula and other 
stations, but could not overtake them. Two Lewes men who made 
their escape from Culloden were their Pilots to Loch Boisdale. 

About Twenty days ago the Pretender's son was seen to go to the 
Rebel M^Kenzie's. 

Yesterday Two French Vessels, one Forty and the other of thirty Extract of a 
Guns, came to Anchor at the Entry of Loch Boisdale ; they landed Loudoun ^°^** 
Fifty men and marched to Kilbride, being three miles from the place dated at 
they came on shore; they gave out they were English and demanded isieofSkye 
fresh provisions ; after asking several questions and hearing that the ^^P'' ^• 
Independant Companies in the Island were assembling to attack them, 
they marched to Reimbark, taking with them one Rory McDonald and 
three men of the Country, whom they carried on board with them and 
made them drunk in hopes to get some intelligence from them about 
the Pretender's Son and some of the principall Rebel Officers, which 
they not being able to do either by threats or fair promises, they put 
Rory McDonald and one of the Country men on shore, and carried off 
the other two who were willing to stay with them ; the said McDonald 
says they were to go through the Inner Sounds of Skye, and that they 
durst not go home without carrying off the Pretender's Son or losing 
their ships. 

I doubt those ships (meaning those mentioned above) may have Extract of a 
got several People on board before this time, as one of the men who from^Lord 
was set on shore from them told the Express who brought the above Loudoun 
that they were to stand over to the Seaforth country ; the same Express Inverness 
tells me that they have seen nothing of them in Skye, and that they ^^P*" ^7^^' 
told the people they took on board they were to be followed by more, 
and that the people who were reduced by the Government, if they would 
serve them they should have twice as good encouragement, and at the 
same time said they had orders to bring off the Young Pretender or 
stay till their ships were lost. 

They are certainly the two large Privatiers we formerly heard of 
to the West, and have come into the Shore as soon as they had in- 
formation of the Commodore being sailed. 



2j8 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 



Extract of a 
Letter 
from Capt 
Campbell of 
Airds to Majr 
Genl 
Campbell 
dated 
Sepr 17th. 



Declaration 
of Duncan 
McMillan. 



It seems past doubt that the Pretender's Son is still in the High- 
lands, and was about Twelve days agoe some where about Loch Arkeg 
in company with Lochiel and a few others ; he wears a shabby High- 
land dress as a disguise.^ 

That a French Vessel landed at Pol Ew, a Loch on the Continent 
of Seaforth's Country is equally certain. Three French Gentlemen 
from on board the said ship came to the Pretender's Son ; ^ soon there- 
after Lochiel sent a message to his sister in law, D^ Cameron's wife, 
desiring all the Gentlemen his friends who had not surrendered to the 
Government, with the Commoners, to come to him, but not in a body so 
as to be taken notice of, which intimations they for the most part com- 
plied with, and are not yet returned from the Braes of the Country. 

Lachlan McLean, Kilmory's brother, who still continues with 
Lochiel, wrote at the same time to Mull, to his brother Hugh. 

The party were then in high spirits, but since those Gentlemen 
went to meet Lochiel, nothing transpires and all is quiet. Some give 
out that the above ship landed Arms, money and provisions. 

There is an Express sent by the Rebel Gentlemen of this Country 
to procure news of this ship ; on his return the Governour of Ellen 
Stalker^ is promised all the news he brings, and the first that Returns 
from Lochiel to the Country in the Neighbourhood of Strontian I am 
promised the like. Whatever accounts they bring you shall beiduly 
advised of. 

That being employed by Duncan M^Vicar, Collector of the 
Customs at Fort William, to go to Glenfinnan on the head of Loch 
Arkag to get intelligence concerning the Pretender's Son or any other 
strangers that might be in that Country, left Fort William on Wednes- 
day the loth and was at Glenfinnan upon the ii^h and 12*^, where he 
was told by a travelling packman that upon the 7* or 8*^ of this month 

^ On August 28, 1746, the Prince, while journeying from Loch Arkaig to Badenoch, had 
been presented by Macdonell of Tullochrom with " a brown, short coat, a shirt, and a pair of 
shoes " (The Lyon, vol. iii., p. 182). When he embarked on board the French ship on Sep- 
tember ig at Lochnanuagh, he was reported as wearing " a short coat of black freeze, trowse, a 
philebeg, and a gray plaid ". — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 445. 

2 A French ship had touched at Poolewe early in August and landed officers, who 
succeeded in meeting the Prince near Loch Arkaig about August 21, and delivered despatches 
to him. Cf. Blaikie, Itinerary, pp. 63, 65. 

3 Donald Campbell. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 239 

sixteen ships passed the point of Airsaig to the Northward, and that 
one of them was a large ship ; that the Inhabitants of Airsaig beHeved 
them to be French ; the packman did not see them himself, but had it 
from those that did. The Declarant had the same Intelligence from an 
old man at the head of Loch Arkeg, who said he had it from some of 
Barrisdile's Tenants who were going to Fort Augustus ; That Lochiel 
had a meeting upon the 6* with some of the Officers of his Regiment 
at the Braes of Loch Arkeg, distributed money amongst them, put 
them in hopes of a French Landing immediately, desired them to be in 
readiness and that none of them should surrender to the Government, 
that they should communicate to such of his Officers as were not 
present ; the Declarant was informed of the meeting and the above 
particulars from an Officer of Lochiel's, by name Allan M^Masters alias 
Campbell, who was not at the meeting, but had it from Officers who 
were ; he was at the time in search of Lochiel to get some money for 
himself, but missed him ; the same Officer told the Declarant that 
Lochiel had left Loch Arkeg and passed Lochy eastward upon the 7th 
and two French Officers in companj' with him, but could not learn that 
the Pretender's Son is in the Country of Locharkeg or that he was 
along with Lochiel.^ 

I was informed yesterday that the People of Lochaber received the Extract of a 
arrears due to them (as they call it) since the 2^^ of April last, and it is ^^"^'' ^^°"^ 
very certain that both Officers and Soldiers have received their pay Campbell to 
lately. Ardsheal and his Gang are still lurking up and down this of Argyle 
Country. ^^^^^ ^^P' 

... 12th Elian 

Information is given to Lauchlan Campbell that three or four stalker Castle, 
hundred stand of Arms and Ammunition are yet concealed in Moidart 
and Aresaig. General Campbell has sent to search for them. 

The above intelligence I received yesterday. 
The following this morning. 
As I had a Surmise two days since that there were some French Copy of a 
Men of War seen off the North Coast, to inform myself the better J^"" ^'°"' 
I went yesterday to Tobermorie, where I met one Tames M^Con, Campbell to 

Majr Gen' 

Master of a Small Vessel from Campbeltoun, who told me that on Campbell, 
Wednesday the 17*^ Current, He sailing Northward by the Bloody bay, ^^^^ Aross, 

^ Lochiel and the Prince were, from September 5 to 13, in Cluny's " Cage " in Benalder, 



240 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

met one McDonald, half brother to the Collector McDonald in Campbel- 
toun, Master of a small Sloop, who desired him to return with him to 
Tobbermorie as it was not safe for him to go on, and that he had some 
news to inform him of, upon which he returned, and the Account M'^ 
McDonald gave M^Con and Allan McLean at Tobbermorie was, that he 
was assured by one Gilnaouth M^Alpin, who lived formerly in Islay and 
now in Egg, that he had been on board a French man of War of Seventy 
Guns in Lochnanuach ^ where he saw several whom he knew, as the 
Young Pretender, young Clanronald and Barisdile,^ and that there were 
three more of betwixt sixty and seventy Guns each in said Loch, and 
that they had raised Batteries at the Entry to secure themselves ; 
there was another large ship cruizing off the Western Isles and one left 
at Uist where they landed Fourteen hundred men and were attended 
by several Tenders who past and repast betwixt Uist and the Continent 
about Lochnanuach daily ; they gave out that they parted with the rest 
of the Fleet some days ago sailing Northward towards Lord Ray's 
Country where they were to land. 

This is the account I have of the matter, and notwithstanding I do 
not believe every circumstance of it, yet I think it my duty to acquaint 
you, that you may inform your self what may be in it. 
Sepr 23d 9 Just now the two following Letters came to Lord Albemarle 

nigM ^^ enclosed in one from Cap* Spencer Powell commanding the Detach- 
ment at Bernera. 

Last night I received the Return of my Express from Cap* M^Leod 
of Talisker, who sent me the following Account of the French Ships, 
which I give you in his own words, viz^- Upon the 5* current two 
French Ships, one of forty and another of thirty Guns, came to anchor 
in Boisdale Loch (a Bay in South Uist) and landed fifty men, but being 
told there were three Companies of ours consisting of one hundred men 
each Stationed near hand them, they immediately went aboard again, 
and sailed towards the main land. They gave themselves out to be 
English men, but some that they pressed on board with them found out 
that they were French, and that they must either find out the Pretender 

1 The French privateers, with Colonel Warren on board, arrived at Lochnanuagh on 
September 6. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 445. 

^Barrisdale went on board on Sept. 13. Cf. Nos. CLXVIIL (Enclosure), CLXXL 
(Enclosure i.). The Prince embarked on September ig. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 24I 

or lose their Ships. From this account it seems that these ships were 
sent to find out the Young Pretender and carry him back to France, 
and it is not improbable that the}' would first go into Loch Noare 
[Lochnanuagh] in Muidort where he was landed upon his coming into 
Britain ; and if he continued to Sculk with Lochiel and other Rebels of 
Lochabber and Muidort, the people on board those ships would soon 
find him out if in either of those Countries, which are contiguous, and 
this might be more easily done as there are none of the King's Ships 
on those Coasts to give them any disturbance, or any Troops quartered 
in Muidort or any other place on that Coast. 

Cap* MacLeod is come nearer you, and as I have written to him I 
believe he will send you further accounts if any come to his hands, and 
the same shall be done by Y^^ &c. 

(Signed) DONALD MACDONALD. 

Ord. Sepr i6th 1746. 

6 o'clock in y^ morning. 

In the Letter I sent you yesterday I acquainted you with what 
accounts I had from Cap*^ MacLeod concerning the French Ships of 
War which touched at South Uist ; all that I have to add to these 
Accounts is, that we are told from the Main Land, That three French 
ships of War came into Lochennoare in Muidort, and received several 
persons on board ; some say the Young Pretender was of the number, 
as also Colonel McDonald of Barrisdile, his son Archibald, John 
McDonald younger Scothouses Son, two Sons of Morror's, Lochiel, a 
Son of Keanloch Muidort's and others, whom I have not heard 
named ; ^ That those French Ships put to sea on the 15th current. 
Yesterday evening I saw two large Vessells (which to me seemed to be 
Ships of War) were cruizing between Lochennoare and the Island of 
Egg, which at length sailed into Lochennoare, but whether they staid 
there I know not, as the point of Aresaig intercepted my view and 

^ A letter from Inveraray of September 30, 1746, says that Barrisdale and his son went on 
board before September 8; that young Clanranald, Lochgarry, Glenaladale, "Dalela" and 
his two brothers, the "second Barisdale and his son," and "some say" Stewart of Ardshiel 
had embarked before the 17th; that Keppoch went on board with three others on the 17th; 
and that the Prince embarked on the 19th, accompanied by Lochiel, Dr Archibald Cameron, 
Ludovick Cameron, Cluny Macpherson and ten or twelve more. The letter is in many par- 
ticulars incorrect. Cf, Scots Mag^azine, vol. viii., p. 445, 

HH 



242 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

night came on. But whether those ships were British or French I 
could not distinguish, the distance being considerable. This is all I 
have yet discovered. 

I am &c. 

(Signed) DONALD MACDONALD. 
Keanlochnidale, 17th Sep^ 1746. 

Captain Powell says in his own, that the Rebels give out 
they intend to come to him, but that he has done every thing to put that 
place in as good condition as possible, and that he does not doubt were 
they to come he would be able to make such defence as would give 
Lord Albemarle satisfaction. 

His Letter is dated from Bernera 
The 17th Sepr- 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Sepr 23, 1746. 

CLXV, 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edenburgh Sept. ye 24th in ye morning. 
My Lord, 

Just as I imagined, the Pretender's Son is gone ; the French 
Ships heard of on y^ western Coast took him and some of his people 
on board them ; ^ at nine o'clock Jackson y^ Messenger received his Dis- 
patch, it is now one Wednesday morning, and Lord Loudoun's Letter 
with ye enclosed to him from Aneas M'Donald of Scotus has this 
instant been delivered to me, whose intelligence may be rely'ed upon. 
H. R. H. knows ye man. 

1 wish and hope that our Men of War (if the French sail North 
about) may meet with them ; wee have two twenty gun ships and one 
sloop cruizing on that Coast. I beg the favour of your Grace to forgive 

^ S. p. Scotland, George II. Bundle 34. No. 26. 

2 The French ships, with the Prince on board, had weighed anchor very early on the 
morning of September 20, 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 243 

blunders, mistakes and my scral, but I was called out of my bed and 
am fast asleep, but in all situations and with great respect I am, 

My Lord 
Your Graces Most obedient humble servant 

ALBEMARLE. 

{Enclosure I.) 

The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albemarle. 

Fort Augustus Sep' 20th, 6 at Night. 
My Lord, 

I send your Lordship enclosed the Copy of a Letter I have 
this minute received from Scothouse ; your Lordship knows of the 
Ships' being there, and I have only to add that Scothouse's Grandson, 
who returned last night from that Country, where he had been on 
Furloe, told me that those Ships he heard were at Aresaig on Sunday 
was sennight,^ of which I acquainted Major Gen^l Blakeney, but as it 
was so long ago, I thought there was no use in troubling your Lordship 
with an express. I shall immediately send an express to Fort William 
to be forwarded to the first Man of War they can get on board of, that 
all pains may be taken to stop those Ships at Sea, and shall here put 
end, that I may not detain the express any longer. 

I am &c. 

(Signed) LOUDOUN. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's of 
Sept. 24, 1746. 

{Enclosure II.) 

^Eneas Macdonell of Scotus to the Earl of Loudoun. 

Scothouse Sepr i8th 1746. 
My Lord, 

I presume to acquaint your Lordship that upon the day after 
my Grandson departed, I got sure Accounts that two French Ships 

1 September 7. 



244 THE ALBEMArLE PAPERS. 

of War came to the neighbouring Coast, and beyond all expectation 
received the young Pretender aboard ; — among others that went with 
him are second and third Barisdile, as also Loch Garry. They denied 
passage to two unlucky Sons of mine who were in the late Rebellion 
because they were no Commissioned Officers. There was but a small 
retinue on board of them, one Colonel, two Cap^^^ and three Lieuts. 

Your Lordship may be persuaded I would not have failed in 
acquainting your Lordship sooner if I had got timely notice, which I 
could not readily have upon account of a troublesome Ferry and a 
rapid Water that is between this Country and the neighbourhood ; 
craving your Lordships pardon for this freedom and trouble, which I 
presume would not be disagreeable, I conclude as always I will. 

My Lord &c. 

(Signed) ^NEAS MCDONELL. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Sepr 24, 1746. 

(Enclosure 1 11.)^ 

Depositions against Lady Dowager of Nairn, Lady Lude her 
Daughter, and James Scott, Innkeeper in Dunkeld. 

Alexander Robertson, Late Dyer at Bridgend of Gill, Presently 
prisoner in the Tolbooth of Perth, Depones That sometime in the 
Month of August Last [1745] Charlotte Robertson Lady Lude sent for 
the Deponent to her house at Lude, where he accordingly went, and 
thereupon she told him that he the Deponent behoved to Inlist as a 
soldier in Lord George Murray's rebell Regiment of Atholemen ^ or pay 
Fifty pound Scots betw* him and Alexander Robertson in Gomna- 
breilach, and in regard the Deponent had not twenty five pound Scots to 
pay, he was forced to take on as a Soldier in the s^ regiment, and 
accordingly he received twenty five pound Scots from the said Alexander 
Robertson as the other half of the sum of Fifty pound Scots which was 

1 The packet is dated August 25, 1746. 

2 Lord George joined the Prince at Perth between September 4-10, 1745. — Blaikie, 
Itinerary, p. 11. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 245 

Imposed by the s^ Lady Lude upon the Deponent & the said Alexander 
Robertson for raising a Soldier for the s** rebell service. And Accord- 
ingly the Deponent Intred as a Soldier in Lord George Murrays rebell 
regiment in the Company that Commonly went by the Designation of 
Lady Ludes Company Commanded by one Robert Steuart, a tennent 
in the Maens of Lude ; and Furder Depones that he Came w^ the said 
rebell regiment to Edin"" and was present at the Battle of Prestoun and 
thereafter went w* the rebell army the Length of Carlisle, and when 
they retreated northwards the Deponent Declares that he deserted from 
the rebell Army a Little before the battle of Culloden and Delivered 
up his Arms to M' Alexander Steuart, Minister at Blair Athole, and 
Depones that the said Alexander Robertson in Gomnabreilach was 
present when the said Lady Lude Enlisted or forced the Deponent to 
take on in the rebell service, and this he Declares to be truth. Causa 
Scientiae patet. 

(Signed) ALEXR ROBERTSON. 

Charles Robertson, tennent in Runroy in the ground of Lude, 
Depones that in harvest 1745 the ground officer of Lude accompanied by 
a party of the rebell army Came to the Deponents house & Carried him 
prisoner to the said Lady Lude, who Desired the Deponent to Inlist as 
a Soldier in the rebell army, and upon his refusing she told him that she 
would Cause that party of Men Destroy his house & Effects, upon which 
the Deponent was oblidged to Inlist in Lord George Murray's rebell 
regiment & in the Company in the s^ regiment that Commonly passed 
under the Designation of Lady Ludes Company Commanded by one 
Robert Steuart, tennent in the Mains of Lude, and thereafter the 
Deponent marched w^ the s^ rebell regiment from Blair Athole towards 
Sterling, nigh which place the Deponent Deserted from the rebells & 
returned home after having been w*^ the rebells about four days, and 
after having been about twenty days at home the Lady Lude having got 
notice that the Deponent had left the rebell Army sent her ground 
officer to the Deponent & brought him to her, and upon his Coming 
into her presence she threatned to hang the Deponent for Deserting 
from the rebells, and thereafter the Deponent went to his own house & 
continued there for sometime, being often oblidged to hide himself for 
fear of being taken by a party of Rebells. But in the month of January 



246 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Last [1746], some few days after the battle of Falkirk, the Deponent 
was apprehended by a party of Rebells and brought to Blair of Athole 
to the presence of Lady Lude, who told him that he behoved to go 
alongst w^ the rebells and if he deserted another time he would infallibly 
be hang'd for a Deserter, and thereupon he went with a party of Rebells 
towards Crieff, where he met with part of the rebell Army who were 
retiring at that time northwards, and went w^ them north to Castle 
Gordon, and sometime thereafter Came South w^ a part of the rebell 
army under the Command of Lord George Murray to the Siege of Blair 
Castle,^ where the Deponent was ordered along w^ others of the said 
Army to keep guard at the pass of Gillicrancky, and when Lord George 
Murray retreated Northwards from the Blair of Athole the Deponent 
deserted from the rebell army, and upon hearing of his Royall Highness 
the Duke of Cumberlands Proclamation the Deponent delivered up his 
arms to M'' Alexander Steuart, Minister at Blair Athole, upon the 21 
May Last conform to a Declaration in the Deponents custody signed 
by the s«J M^ Alex. Steuart ; and Furder Depones that W'" Douglass, 
tennent in Runroy, was present at the Blair of Athole when the Depo- 
nent was brought before the Lady Lude, and heard her threaten the 
Deponent that if he deserted a second time he should be hanged. And 
this he Declares to be truth & Depones he Cannot write. 

(Signed) ALEXR HORNE. 

Robert Steuart, tennent at Bridgend of Gilt in Lady Ludes ground, 
Depones That several times Last winter Charlotte Robertson Lad}^ 
Lude entred into Conversation w* the Deponent, telling him that it 
was a shame that he a young man should stay at home & not go out & 
serve in the Pretenders army while he saw several old men Leaving 
their families and hurried out to serve therein, and Confesses that she 
sent to him two or three times to see if he would go and serve in the said 
army & frequently pressed him hard thereto. Depones that sometime 
in the months of December or January Last he observed Lady Lude 
Come to the Castle of Blair Athole (where the Deponent was at that 
time) to visit Robertson of Drummawhine who acted there at that time 
as a rebell Governour of that Garrison, and has heard the said Lady 

1 The siege of Blair Castle, then defended by Sir Andrew Agnew, was commenced on 
March 17 and raised on April 2. Cf. Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 42. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 247 

Lude & Drummawhine drinking the King and Prince Regents healths, 
and this he Declares to be truth. 

(Signed) ROBERT STEUART. 

Niel Kennedy, tennent in Croftorchuian, Depones That he in the 
End of August 1745 Joined the rebell army at the Desire of the Lady 
Lude, That he Continued w* them till about the middle of October when 
he Deserted from them, for which the Lady Lude Challenged him and 
was pressing w*^ him to return back to them again, but he did not obey 
her. That when he deserted, the following persons, tennents to Lude, 
also Deserted w^ him, to witt Alexander Kennedy in Craggen, Duncan 
Robertson in Kilmavennag, Donald Steuart in Craggan, Alex^ Robertson 
in park of Kinnamaan, Donald Kennedy in Balnagrue, Alexander 
Robertson in Drumnanagach, Duncan McDonald in Tom of Kindrocht, 
all in the ground of Lude. That the Lady Lude Challenged them hard 
for their deserting & in his presence was demanding Five pound ster^ of 
each of them for their having deserted, That it was necessary for her to 
have that money from them in regard she had given out of her own pocket 
as much to Robert Steuart who Commanded Ludes men in order to List 
men in their stead, and that he knows that severals of them did pay 
Five pound ster^ each to her ; But that in the month of February, when 
the rebells were retreating, she caused the factor allow the same to 
them in pay* of so much of their rents. That the Pretenders son Came 
to Blair upon a Saturday about the end of August,^ and that on Monday 
thereafter he saw him at Lude with several others, & particularly that 
the Lady Lude was w* him & that she had her sons tennents Conveen'd 
there, and that in presence of the person Commonly Called Marquise of 
Tullibardine "^ she required them earnestly to join the pretender under 
the said Marquise, to which all the tennents seemed averse, But she 
insisted if they would not Join, she would cause all their Means to be 
taken from them. And this he declares to be truth & Depones he 
cannot write. 

(Signed) THO. BISSET, Interpreter. 

^ The Prince arrived at Blair Atholl from Dalnacardoch on August 31, 1745. He 
proceeded to Lude on September 2. C/. The Lyon, vol. i., p. 208, for some details as to the 
Prince's stay at Lude. 

"^ William Marquis of Tullibardine, attainted in 1715 and excluded from the succession to 
the Dukedom of Atholl. 



248 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Alexander Kennedy, tennent in the ground of Lude, Depones That 
in the end of August 1745 upon a Monday Immediately after the Pre- 
tenders son came from the Highlands to Blair Athole, He, the young 
Pretender, came to Lude ^ w* the Marquise of Tullibardine & several 
others, where the Lady Lude was, & had with her conveened her son 
Ludes tennents, when she required them strictly to Join the said Pre- 
tender, and they seeming averse she threatned if they did not that she 
would Cause Carry off from them all their Means or Effects, whereupon 
they were oblidged to yeild, but he the Deponent & eight more deserted 
from the rebells about the middle of October, for which the said Lady 
Lude upbraided & threatned them much, and was demanding Five 
pound ster' from each of them to List others in their room, and that he 
the Deponent did pay her five pounds, but that about ten or twelve days 
ago the factor gave allowance to the Deponent of the same in his rent, 
and upon his so doing he gave up to the factor the receipt he got from 
the Lady. And this he Declares to be truth & Depones he Cannot 
write. 

(Signed) THO. BISSET, Interp'. 

Duncan Robertson, tennent in Kilmavennag, in ground of Lude, 
Depones Conform to the Immediate preceeding witness in omnibus, w* 
this Difference, That he paid only Three pound ten shillings ster^ to 
Lady Lude for his deserting from the rebells, whereof he got allowance 
from the factor in February Last, who took up the Ladies receipt from 
him, but at the same time the Lady forced him out a second time to 
Join the rebells & oblidged him to go north w^^ them, but he deserted 
them then also before the battle of Culloden. And this is the truth as 
he shall answer to God, & Depones he Cannot write. 

(Signed) THO. BISSET, Interpr. 

Thomas Rattray, workman at Blair Athole, Depones that upon a 
Saturday about the end of Aug* Last ^ the Deponent observed Lady 
Lude Coming towards a Gate at Blair Athole to meet the Pretenders 
son, & that during the whole time that the Pretenders son was at the 
Blair she took the Management of the house & entertained him & gave 
all proper directions to the servants about Managing the house at that 

1 On September 2, 1745. ^ August 31, 1745. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 249 

time ; and Furder Depones that he observed the Lady Dowager of 

Nairn at the Blair of Athole in September last, while the person 

commonly called Marquise of Tullibardine was there, & has seen her in 

Company w* him at that time, where the Deponent thinks to the best 

of his knowledge she staid for the space of a fortnight or three weeks 

till the news of the battle of Prestoun came to that place, and Depones 

that he had occasion to see the Lady Lude once in Company w"^ the 

rebells during the seige of Blair Castle about the Month of March 

Last ; ^ and this is the truth as he shall answer to God, & Depones 

he cannot write. 

(Signed) ALEXR HORNE. 

Duncan McLaren, workman at Blair Athole, Depones That about 
the Latter end of August Last he had occasion to see the Lady Lude at 
Blair Castle Managing the house and giving proper orders for the 
reception of the pretenders son, and remembers to have seen her walk 
out towards the Entry where the pretenders son was coming in order to 
meet him, and Likeways had occasion to see her in Company w*^ the 
rebells in the Month of March Last when they were Carrying on the 
seige of Blair Castle, and Depones he saw Lady Dowager of Nairn at 
Blair Castle in the month of September last when the Marquise of 
Tullibardine was there, & that she continued there for some time ; and 
this is the truth as he shall answer to God. 

(Signed) DUN. MCLAREN. 

James Gow, tennent & ground officer to the Duke of Athole at 
Blair, Depones that about the end of August Last he had occasion to 
observe the Lady Lude walking in company w*^ the pretenders son upon 
the green of Blair Athole attended by several of the rebell officers. 
Depones that he saw the said Lady Lude once in Company w*^ the 
Rebells at the Kirk toun of Blair in the month of March Last while the 
rebells were beseiging the Castle of Blair, and Declares he has seen the 
Lady Dowager of Nairn at Blair Athole in the month of September 
Last when the Marquise of Tullibairdine was there, and that she 
continued there for sometime ; and this is the truth as he shall answer 
to God. 

(Signed) JAMES GOW. 

' March 17 — April 2, 1746. 
I I 



2SO THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Angus McDonald, workman at Blair Athole, Depones that some- 
time towards the end of August Last, on the day that the Pretenders 
Son Came to the Blair of Athole,^ He observed Lady Lude at the door 
of the said house kneel down and kiss the Pretender's sons hands, and 
Depones that when the Pretenders son Left Blair of Athole & Came 
to Dunkeld,^ the Deponent Came along in his retinue and observed 
Lady Lude following after him, and this is the triuth as he shall answer 
to God, & Depones he cannot write. 

(Signed) .ALEXR- HORNE. 

James Steuart, Bellman in Dunkeld, Depones that about the Latter 
end of August Last, on the day that the Pretenders son Came to 
Dunkeld,^ the Lady Lude sent for the Deponent a short space before 
the Pretenders son Came into the said toun, and ordered the Deponent 
to ring the toun bells because the Pretender's son was Just going to 
make his entry thereinto ; and this is the truth as he shall answer to 
God. 

(Signed) JAMES STEUART. 

James Cuthbert, one of the toun officers of Dunkeld, Depones that 
he observed Lady Lude at the Cross of Dunkeld in the Latter end of 
August Last, on that day the rebells proclaimed the Pretender or pub- 
lished his Manifestos there,^ in Company w*^ such of the rebells as were 
then at the said Cross. Depones That James Scott, Innkeeper in 
Dunkeld, sometime in the Month of October or November Last ordered 
the Deponent to go about the toun of Dunkeld & the Country adjacent 
thereto and bring in a Number of horses sufficient to Carry a hundred 
bolls of Meal or thereabout, as he thinks, from Dunkeld to Blair & 
Logierait, which Meal had been seized from M^ Robertson of Tullibol- 
toun, one of the Baillies of Perth, by the Rebells, and which the 
Deponent accordingly execute ; and Furder Depones that" the said M"^ 
Scot gave the above orders at the same time to Donald Gow, another 
of the town officers, and the Deponent received from the said M^ Scot 

1 August 31, 1745. 

2 The Prince left Lude and proceeded to Dunkeld (where he occupied the Duke of 
AtholPs house) on September 3, 1745. — Blaikie, Itinerary,^. 11. 

■'September 3, 1745, *Septernber 3 or 4, 1745. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 25 1 

a Guinea in order to Defray part of the expence of the said hires ; and 
Declares that the person commonly called Marquise of Tullibairdine 
gave the Deponent orders to obey M"" Scot in whatever he should require 
of him, and Depones that he has received orders sometime in winter 
Last from the said M^ Scot to Look out for Merchants to buy Malt that 
belonged to James Duke of Athole, and which was at that time Lying 
in his Malt barn in Dunkeld, and that the Deponent actually got 
Merchants who bought the same, particularly the Deponent thinks that 
John Sanders & Emilia Robertson, both in Dunkeld, bought part of 
the same ; and this is the truth as he shall answer to God. 

(Signed) JA. CUTHBERT. 

Donald Gow, one of the town officers in Dunkeld, Depones that 
sometime in the beginning of winter Last James Scot, Innkeeper in 
Dunkeld, sent for him and gave him orders to go about the town and 
Country and provide horses for carrying Meal belonging to the rebells 
from Dunkeld to Logierait and Blair Athole, which he the Deponent 
accordingly execute. Depones that he Likeways received orders from 
the said M^ Scot to go about & tell the people of the toun of Dunkeld 
to Illuminate their windows upon the news of the battle of Prestoun's 
Coming to the said toun ; and this is the truth &c and Depones he 

cannot write. 

(Signed) ALEXR HORNE. 

Robert Steuart, Workman in Dunkeld, Depones that about the 
Latter end of August Last, upon the day the Pretenders son Came into 
Dunkeld,^ He heard Lady Lude desire James Steuart, the Bellman in 
Dunkeld, to ring the bells, and has had occasion to see her in Company 
w*^ the Pretenders son in the Duke of Athole's house at Dunkeld,^ & 
has seen her dinning and supping w*^ him there, and Depones that 
in the month of December Last on the Pretender's Son's birthday,^ 
the Deponent saw M"" Scot the Innkeeper at Dunkeld receive an order 
in writing, w^h so soon as he read he gave to the Deponent to Deliver 

1 September 3, 1745. 

^The Prince stayed there only one night (September 3, 1745). The house was pulled 
down about 1830. — Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 11. 

'* December 20, old style ; December 31, new style. 



i5^ THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

to Charles Humphreys, gardner to the Duke of Athole, which he 
accordingly did, and w^^ order the said Humphreys read to the Deponent, 
which Contained an order to M' Scot to procure some of the Duke 
of Atholes Coals to make a bonfire for the Pretenders sons birth- 
day. Furder Depones that he has observd the said James Scot 
making Inventaries of the Duke of Atholes bed & table Linning then 
in his house in Dunkeld during the time that Robertson of Drumma- 
whine acted as rebell governour in Athole ; and this is the truth as he 
shall answer to God ; and Furder Declares that he once saw the Lady 
Dowager of Nairn in Company w^ the person Commonly Called Mar- 
quise of Tullibardine, and at Dinner w^ him in the house of Dunkeld, 
and Depones he cannot write. 

(Signed) ALEXR HORNE. 

William M^Farlane, workman at Dunkeld, Depones That sometime 
in the Latter end of August last, on the day the Pretenders son came to 
Dunkeld,^ he heard Lady Lude give orders to James Steuart, Bellman 
there, to ring the toun bells on account of the Pretenders son's entry, 
& saw her give him a shilling to do it. And Depones that he has 
observed her take much of the Management upon her of the Duke of 
Atholes houses at Blair & Dunkeld while the Pretenders son and rebell 
army were at these places. And this is the truth as he shall answer to 
God, & Depones he cannot write. 

(Signed) ALEXR HORNE. 

Robert M^euan, tennent in Claypots, Depones That in the Month of 
October or November Last, James Cuthbert, one of the town officers in 
Dunkeld, came to the Deponents house and Desired him to bring in 
some horses to Dunkeld in order to Carry Meal belonging to the rebells 
to Blair of Athole, which he accordingly did, and received both his 
orders to Carry the s^ Meal & his pay* therefor from James Scot, 
Innkeeper in Dunkeld, and this is the truth &c., and Depones he 
Cannot write. 

(Signed) ALEXR HORNE. 

1 September 3, 1745. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 253 

John M^euan, tennent in Claypotts, Depones Conform to the 

Immediate preceding witness in omnibus. And this is the truth &c., 
and Depones he Cannot write. 

(Signed) ALEXR HORNE. 

Alexander M^euan, tennent in Claypotts, Depones Conform to the 
two preceeding witnesses in omnibus, with this addition that the said 
James Scot sent for him sometime thereafter and sent him & the two 
preceeding witnesses w*^ rebell Meal from Dunkeld to Blair Athole, for 
which he not only gave them orders but Likewise paid them their hyre. 

And this is the truth &c. 

(Signed) ALEXR MCEUAN. 

Emilia Robertson, Indweller in Dunkeld, Depones That she bought 
two or three bolls of James Duke of Atholes Malt from M^ James Scot, 
innkeeper in Dunkeld, and that she paid the price thereof to the said 
James Scot at the time, and thinks that it was in the Month of October 
or November Last, and Depones that she received the Malt out of the 
Duke of Atholes Malt Barn, and that she heard it was by orders from 
the person Called Marquise of Tullibairdine that M"^ Scot Disposed 
thereof. And this is the truth &c. 

(Signed) AMELIA ROBERTSON. 

Margaret Robertson, Indweller in Dunkeld, Depones Conform to 
the Immediate preceeding witness in omnibus ; and this is the truth 
&c, & Depones she Cannot write. 

(Signed) ALEX^ HORNE. 

David Inches, Mer* in Dunkeld, Depones That sometime in the 
Month of August Last when the rebells proclaimed or Published the 
Pretender or his Sons Manifestos or Proclamations at the Cross of 
Dunkeld,^ He observ'd Lady Lude among the rebells at that time, 
and saw & heard her there drink Prince Charles his health alongst w*^ 
the other Rebells. Depones that sometime in the Month of December 
Last Hee the Deponent was taken prisoner b}' a party of the Rebells 
and brought to the house of James Scot, Innkeeper in Dunkeld, where 

^September 3 or 4, 1745. 



254 The: albemarle papers. 

the Serjeant who Commanded the Rebell party went upp stairs and 
soon returned, telling the Deponent that if he did not pay thirty 
shillings, the sum Laid on for raising a Man for the rebell Service, he 
behov'd to go to prison directly, which he refusing to do, the party 
Carried him directly to the tolbooth in Dunkeld, And next day the 
Deponent was brought by the Jailor to the presence of the said James 
Scot, who told him that he had heard that he the Deponent had refused 
to pay the thirty shillings Laid on for raising a Soldier for the rebell 
service, and that he the Deponent should have said he would pay 
nothing to a pretending Prince. According two friends of the De- 
ponents, who were present, offered to give their bill to the Jailor 
providing he would Liberate the Deponent for thirty shillings payable 
to Robertson of Drummawhine, the Rebell Governour in Athole, But 
the Jailor refused to accept of it unless they would give their bill for 
Three pound ster^. In regard the Deponent had refused to Comply at 
the first demand, and they having agreed thereto, a bill was Accordingly 
wrote by the Jailor & signed & accepted by the Deponents two friends 
for Three pound ster^ payable to the said Rebell Governour, which bill 
was delivered into the hands of the said James Scott to be given by 
him to the first of the Rebell officers that should come to Dunkeld, 
and the Deponent remembers that at that time the s^ James Scot 
quarrelled [with] him for keeping a Correspondence w* some of his 
Majesties soldiers that were kept prisoners at Dunkeld, and Carrying 
Letters to and from Sterling. And' this is the truth &c, and Depones 
he is not at present able to write on Account of a pain in his hand. 

(Signed) ALEXR HORNE. 

Charles Humphreys, Gardner to his Grace the Duke of Athole, 
Depones That he thinks M' Scott, Innkeeper in Dunkeld, required him 
to have a horse & a Cart ready to carry some of the Duke of Atholes 
Coals to a bonefire that was kindled at the Cross of Dunkeld on account 
of the rebells getting possession of the toun of Edin^ sometime in the 
month of September Last,^ and that the Coals were actually carried 
away & made use of for the said bonefire. Depones that the said M^ 
Scott was much about & often in the Company of the person called 

^ September 17, 1745. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 255 

Marquis of Tullibairdine, That he was always very industrious in 
spreading the Jacobite news, such as that of French Landings, Defeat 
of the King's troops in England by the rebells, & the Like, which he 
continued to do a great part of Last winter. That he heard him in 
December or January Last Require from Thomas Bisset, who had the 
charge of the Duke of Athole's house in Dunkeld, Inventaries of all 
wt^in the house, telling that the person called Marquis of Tullibardine, 
whom he called the Duke of Athole, gave him orders to call for the 
same ; and this is the Truth &c. 

(Signed) CHARLES HUMPHREYS. 

Thomas Bissett, agent to the Duke of Athole, Declares that M^ 
Scott, Innkeeper in Dunkeld, did order him to give out Coals out of the 
said Duke his Coal Cellar for a bonefire that was to be at the Cross of 
Dunkeld upon the rebells entring Edin^. That M' Scot was often about 
& in the Company of the Marquise of Tullibairdine & acted as having 
power from the Marquise in overseeing & giving directions to the Duke 
of Athole's serfs. He the said M^" Scott in the months of December or 
January Last told the Declarant that he had orders from the Marquise 
of Tullibairdine, whom he Called the Duke of Athole, to take an Inven- 
tary of all within his Grace's house of Dunkeld, which he M^ Scot 
afterwards did, and required of the Declarant to Deliver him the key of 
his Grace's wine Cellar, w^h the Declarant accordingly gave him. That 
he was very industrious in spreading Jacobite news. That the Jacobites 
in the town of Dunkeld & the neighbourhood frequented his house 
purposely to get news. That he often shewed the Declarant Letters 
giving account of the victories obtain'd by the rebells over the Kings 
army in England. That the Declarant knew he was much Employ'd 
in writing orders to the Marquise of Tullibairdine, of which the 
Declarant collected some & delivered them to his Grace the Duke of 
Athole ; and this he Declares to be truth. 

(Signed) THO. BISSETT. 

William Boyd, wright in Loak near Nairn, Depones that the 
Saturday evening before the Kings birthday in October Last [1745] 
a good many of the tennents of the ground of Nairn were warned to 
Come to the house of Nairn, where the Deponent saw the said Margaret 



256 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Lady Nairn & some of her daughters. The said Lady herself insisted 
with the Deponent & his two neighbours, Andrew Finlay & William 
Boyd, to go that night into the toun of Perth to assist in guarding 
some powder & ammunition that Strathallan or Gask had there, and 
that if they did refuse to go, tho hitherto they had not been troubled 
w*^ the Clanns, she could hold them no longer from them, and promised 
that they should be detained at Perth only from that time till the 
Tuesday thereafter at Midday or Wednesday at farthest. Deposes 
that that same Evening he went w^ Andrew Finlay &c into Perth, 
where they staid w^^out receiving Arms till the Tuesday night, when 
they were oblidged to go to the rebell guard, where each of them 
received a firelock & then join'd the rebell guard, & were oblidged to 
stand Centrys & do duty all that night. And this is the truth &c. 

(Signed) WILLM BOYD. 

Andrew Finlay in Loak Depones that the Saturday Evening before 
the Kings birth day in October [1745] the Deponent & the two W"^ 
Boyds, Wrights in Loak, being sent for went to the house of Nairn, 
and the said W^ Boyds & John Fogo at Mill of Collie went in w^in 
Margaret Lady Nairn's bedroom, where he heard the said Lady order 
all of them to go into Perth to assist Lord Strathallan's guard, and 
Promised that they should be allowed to return in a few days. And 
this is truth &c. 

(Signed) AND. FINLAY. 

William Boyd, Elder, wright in Loak, Depones alike to the said 
Andrew Findlay, & further, that before Margaret Lady Nairn herself 
Desired the Deponent & Andrew Finlay & W'" Boyd you"^ to go to 
Perth that night, M^s Mary Nairn her daughter in dealing w^ them 
to go threatned that if they did not go She would Cause Drummawhines 
rebells plunder all their goods and throw them to the door. And this 
is truth &c. 

(Signed) WILLIAM BOYD. 

Donald Stewart in Cragan, in the ground of Lude, aged Fourty or 
thereby, Married &c. Depones that in the end of August last, when the 
Pretender's son was at Blair,^ The Lady Lude called for him the 

1 August 31 — September 2, 1745, 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 257 

deponent to Lude and told him that he behooved to go and join the 
Rebel Army, which she called the Prince's Army, and he refusing she 
told him if he did not she wou'd cause the Highlanders seize upon and 
carry off all his effects, whereupon he was forced to Join them, and 
went alongst with them the length of Edinburgh, where he and several 
others of Lude's Tennents deserted them, and no sooner did he and 
his Neighbours return home than she sent for them to Lude and re- 
proved them for deserting, calling them Villians, Traitors and other 
opprobrious names ; and in February last [1746] when the Rebels were 
retreating north she attempted to force them out a Second time, when 
she pressed and threatned him so hard that he was oblidged to hire 
one Donald Stewart to go north with the Rebels in his place, Since 
he wou'd by no means yeild to go himself, Donald Kennedy, in Midle- 
toun of Lude, Concurs in omnibus. 

Patrick Kennedy, in Midletoun of Lude, Depones that in the end 
of October last [1745] Lady Lude sent for him to Lude and there pressed 
him hard to Join the Rebels, threatening him if he did not ; at last find- 
ing him obstinate, & told him she wou'd pass if he paid her five pounds 
for inlisting another man in his place, Whereupon he paid her Three 
pounds in hand and gave her his bill for Two pounds, and Depones that 
about three weeks ago The factor delayed exacting his rent from him on 
account that he paid the said Five pounds, But said that he wuld not 
promise upon his geting allowance of the said sum. 

Thomas Fraser in Tomnavulen Depones that in the end of August 
last when the Pretender's Son came to Blair Castle ^ with a number of 
the Rebel Gentlemen and his Rebel Guard The Lady Lude did meet 
him on the Castle Green and Kneel'd down to him, and the deponent 
being at some distance did not observe whether or not she kissed his 
hand, but saw her kneel as aforesaid. That in a day or two there after 
he saw the Pretender's son and severals of the Rebel Gentlemen Enter- 
tained by the Lady Lude at her house of Lude with Dinner and with 
Musick and Dancing after dinner,^ and that she took upon her the 

^ On August 31, 1745. 

^ " September 2d. — He left Blair and went to the house of Lude, where he was very 
chearful and took his share in several dances, such as minuets, Highland reels (the first reel 
the Prince called for was ' This is not mine ain house,' etc.), and a Strathspey minuet," — Tfte 
Lyon, vol. i., p. 208. 

KK 



258 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

management of the house or Castle of Blair belonging to the Duke of 
Athole, and Entertained the young Pretender and the Rebel Gentlemen 
that were with him there ^ as if she had been Mistress of the house. 
That he the deponent was every day in & about the Castle at that 
time. Further that he observed Lady Lude so elevate while she was 
about the Young Pretender at that time that she looked like a person 
whose head had gone wrong. Further that in March last when the 
Rebels seized the vSerjeants Command that Sir Andrew Agnew had at 
the Bridge of Tilt ^ he saw Lady Lude treat these Rebels with Brandy, 
applauding them for what they had done, clapping them on the shoulders. 
Danced with them, spiriting them up, saying that they would be all 
very happy. That he saw her frequently alongst with the Rebels when 
they were investing the Castle of Blair.^ 

Alexander Robertson, in park of Kinamoan, Depones that upon a 
day in the end of August last The Lady Lude Conveen'd almost all 
Lude's Tennents and the deponent among the rest to Lude, where the 
young Pretender was at the time, when she told them that they must 
all joyn and serve in the army of the said Pretender, which they refusing 
she threatned that if they did not she would cause the Highlanders 
seize and carry oif their whole effects, whereupon many of them did 
yeild and did go alongst. But that soon thereafter a number of them 
deserted back from Edinburgh, such as the Deponent, Alex"" Kennedy 
in Cragen, Duncan Robertson in Killmavionack, Donald Stewart in 
Cragan, Donald Kennedy in Balnagrue, Alex"" Robertson in Drum- 
nanagah, and Duncan Mcdonald in Tomb of Kindrochit, and that no 
sooner they returned home than the Lady sent for them and reproved 
them for returning home. Calling them villanous Deserters and many 
other bad names, and threatned to hang them if they did not go back 
again to the Rebel Army, and forced some of them to pay money for 
inlisting others in their place when she could not by foul or fair means 
perswade them to go back to the Rebel army, particularly she oblidged 
Duncan Robertson in Killmavionack and Alex"^ Robertson in Cragan to 
pay money. 

^ From August 31 to September 2, 1745. 

2 On March 17, 1746, Lord George Murray seized a number of outposts before corn- 
mencing the siege of Blair Castle. Cf, Scots Magazine, 1808, pp. 330,410. 
' March 17 — April 2, 1746. 



tHE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 259 

Alex' Robertson in Drumnanaigh Depones alike with Alex' Robert- 
son in Kinamoan the immediat preceeding witness in omnibus, with 
this addition, that the deponent himself was oblidged to pay money for 
Inlisting another in his place by the Lady Lude's forceing him thereto. 

Endorsed : — R. from the D[uke] of A[tholl] Sept. 24, 1746. 



{Enclosure IV.) 

Sir Alexander Macdonald to Clanranald. 

Dear Clan, 

Notwithstanding that I hear from time to time that you are 
on the wing southwards I never will Dispare of you Till you are gone, 
Neither will I Till then Cease to give you all the Information I have. 
It is not new to you that the P. after Penetrating Little beyond Darby 
thought Proper to wheel about in order to Return to Scotland. The 
Reasons of this Resolution were strong. The Army under the Duke of 
Cumberland was very Near and much more Numorous, no French 
Succor was like to Cast up & no Accesion of strength to his Army 
from the Men of England ; upon his Turning Tail the Duke with his 
Light Horse and Granadeers mounted Persued whatever he was able, 
but (to y^ Ps Honoure Who has not so good an officer in his army as 
him self) cou'd not over take, Except once that the Ps Rear and some 
of the Dukes Men had a smart Scuffle at a Village called Clifden,^ 
where as all was acted by Fireing, the Highlanders suffered Most ; as 
they were Forced to make very long marches they Dropt a great many 
Men, The Garrison left at Carlile surrender'd at Discretion to the 
Duke above three weeks ago ; "^ the Dukes Cavalry was hourly expected 
at Edinh on Monday was a fortnight, on which day a Kinghorn Boat 
saild from Leith with Dispatches for the North. That Day the first 
Division of Wades Army was marching into Edin^ under Lieut. Gener' 

^ The skirmish at CHfton took place on Dec. 18, 1745. Cf. The Rising of 1745, pp. loi 
et seq. 

^On Dec. 30, 1745. 



26o THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Hawley ; ^ by the Leith and Edin^ Carts having gone to fetch inn their 
Baggage the P. was then either at Hamilton or Glasgow with the 
Debris of his Army, from which there has been (and no wonder) a very 
great Desertion. By M^ M^Allesters vessel in ten Days from Kintyre I 
learn that the small army at Perth, Consisting of 3000, marched out of 
that Place and mett the P. near the Forth and that they Return'd in 
a Body to Perth ; ^ whether they will make a Stand there or get into 
the Highlands and Disperse I know not ; my oppinion is they will 
endeavour to keep in a Body till they see the fate of the Invasion which 
has been Carrying on at Dunkirk, Ostend and Calais ; the number of 
Troops that should have been embarked in these Ports is 12,000 & shoud 
have saild the 5*^ of last month, the gros of them were to be put on board 
of open Boats & to Land in Kent, Essex &c ; there was no account of 
their being landed when the Kinghorn Boat saild & it is Dubious if 
they can put to Sea & very Dangerous for them to Land, for the Gov- 
erment besides the strong guard of men of war in the Channel under 
Admaral Vernon have arm'd above 100 small Vessels, Cutters, Sloops 
&c, these have taken many Empty ships and a number of Fish Boats 
& other small Craft going into Dunkirk & Calais to take men on board, 
and they Peep frequently into these Ports to se what is doing. The 
People along the Coasts of England are arming and looking out sharpe 
and have Removed all Eatables 20 miles from the Sea ; the Army to 
oppose their Landing is more Numerous than themselves. I do not se 
the French can Propose to get masters of England with so small a 
Force, and without that they now can do no service to the P. at such a 
Distance from him ; the half of 12,000 would have had a strong effect 
in August last. I know not but the Precipitate Retreat of the High- 
landers from England may make France lay aside thoughts of Invading, 
& indeed the Invasion would now seem to no Purpose if they dont land 
in Scotland ; nor do I know whether the Peace which the King of 
Prussia has Clapt up with the Queen of Hungary & King of Poland 
after Beating Both their Armys near Dresden will make the French 
King shye to part with any of his Troops ; you se this Peace makes 
him 70,000 Enemys more this year in Flanders and on the Rhine. 

^ Hawley reached Edinburgh on Jan. 6, 1746. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 32. 
^ The Prince marched from Glasgow on Jan. 3, 1746, effected a junction with Lord John 
Drummond's force from Perth, and on Jan. 6 summoned Stirling Castle. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 26 1 

Barray has done all He could to make me a present of his i;Estate, 
tho' I never Coveted it ; there is no man but knows that arms and 
mony were Landed with him, & the Goverment People know that he 
took a part of Both. His Revinus and Weapon showings are no 
secretts to them & he need not Expect to Escape a Tryal ; if He is 
attainted it will not be in my Power to give his Estate to his Son, as I 
know the Goverment wont suffer to shew any favours in that way with- 
out Resenting it; it is Pityfull to se the Poor Gentleman imposed on by a 
very underling Embassador who is happy if he gets a Company of Foot 
when he Returns as the Reward of his Zeal in Ruining Barray ; there 
is but one way Left to save him, and that is that he Bring what arms 
he got directly to me ; this I'm affraid he will not do, and yett his 
People will soon be Forced to give them up. As the goverment Lookes 
on me as their Zealous Friend this thing if Immediately done woud 
give me a Pretext of Keeping Barray free of any molestation, if it is 
Delayed it will not signifye to do it months hence when it must be 
done ; wou'd it not be Charitable in you to make him meet you at 
Boiskils and both of you to give him your best advice ? You se I woud 
not gladly gain by his Folly. I hope in god you and your Alist men 
have kept your Fingers clean of that Barray Cargo. You se the L^ is 
lost if a Miracille does not Interpose & for any man to Loose him self 
now and without a Blow would be a Miserable Circumstance. I forgot 
to tell you that the Kinghorn Boat Brought an order for Laying an 
Embargo on any ships in the north of Scotland outward Bound with 
Beef, Pork or any other Eatables, & this in order that the army coming 
North in Persuit of the Highlanders may be the better subsisted. Hay 
of Ranas, Clasterim and some other gentlemen have gone to their 
homes from the Prince, but wither to Reclaim the Men of D. Gordons 
country who have all Deserted I cant tell. 

There is a Report of Clunnie M<^Pherson, Lochgarie, and Ardnabie 

•were killed at Clifden, but this is not Certain. The 6000 Hessians 

which were Embark'd at Willimstadt and Destined for Scotland were 

not Landed when the Boat sailed from Leith.^ If I have not the 



^The Hessian troops landed at Leith on February 8, 1746 {Scots Magazine, vo]. viii., 
p. 89). They left Scotland on June 10, 1746 {ib., vol. viii., p. 289). A journal of their marches 
in the campaign is in Hist. MSS. Com., Rept. viii., pp. 313-14. 



262 THE ALBEMARLE PAPfiRS. 

Pleasure of hearing from you I shall fancy you dead or that I have 
Lost a Friend. 

I am with Real Frendship and Esteem, 
My Dear Clan, 
Your afft cousen and most Hum sert 

(Signd) ALEXR MCDONALD.^ 
Mugstot 25th Jany. 1745/6. 

P.S^ — Loose no time if you have any kindness for Barray in 
seeing him, and if he Loves himself He'll be Alert. Largie is still at 
home. 

Endorsed : — Rd. from the D. of A. 
Sept. 24, 1746.2 

CLXVI. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Sep* 25, 1746. 
My Lord, 

Since my last of yesterday morning at two o' Clock by 
Express, I have had no intelligence of the Pretender's Son, but I am 
persuaded past any doubt of his being sailed in a French Ship as men- 
tioned in Scotus's Letter.* 

I hope your Grace will be pleased to direct M"" Stone to give me an 
answer to the several Queries I have asked you, and desire the board of 
Ordnance to give orders about the Bedding for the Five Companies in 
this Castle, for as the weather grows cold, the men will suifer extremely 
by lying upon Straw. 

^ Sir Alexander Macdonald had refused to join the Prince upon his arrival in Scotland in 
July, 1745. On June 29, 1746, however, when the Prince and Flora Macdonald landed near 
Monkstat, Lady Macdonald had given them assistance {The Lyon, vol. i., p. 300), and though 
Sir Alexander had offered explanations (cf. Culloden Papers, pp. 290, 291), his sincerity was 
evidently questioned, as appears from Lord Albemarle's letter, infra, p. 263. 

^ It seems probable that this letter had been found in Clanranald's house at the time of 
his apprehension in July, 1746. 

^ S.P Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 29. 

* No. CLXV. (Enclosure ii.), supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 263 

The Destination of the several Irish Officers in the French Service, 
Prisoners here, should also be known, that they might either be prose- 
cuted or sent to Carlisle, and have their Liberty on giving their Parole, 
with those who are now there. 

I am with the greatest Respect 

My Lord 

Your Grace's most Obedient Humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 

P.S. — This instant I have received the enclosed affidavit from 
Maj"^ Gen^ Campbell ; most people in this country, from their fear 
I believe, see double and very willing to believe Lyes, as I take most of 
the papers to consist of, except those that tend to prove the Pretender's 
Son is sailed from hence. 

September 25th near 12 o'clock at night. 

Since the sealing up of this Letter, the second enclosed intelligence 
came to me ; as the copying of it has taken some time the Post is gone, 
therefore I send it by Express ; any doubts I had before of the truth of 
the Pretender's son being gone are at present absolutely removed by 
Lochiel's being now mentioned amongst those that he took on board 
with him, for I never doubted of his affection, the best, nay the only 
good man, zealous for his Interest in this Country (therefore could not 
believe he would leave him to shift for himself) ; for though Barisdale is 
a thorough Jacobite and a Rogue, he has no head to my certain know- 
ledge, for I had long conversations with him at Fort Augustus.^ If Sir 
Alexander McDonald had wished well to the cause, I ought to have 
heard from him at this juncture. I have a long while doubted of his 
sincerity. 

ALBEMARLE. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed: — Rd. 29* (by Express). 

^ Barrisdale, who had secured a protection from the Duke of Cumberland on his promise, 
it is stated, to deliver up the Prince, had had that protection withdrawn by Lord Albemarle 
within a few days (July 26) of the Duke's departure from Fort Augustus. That decision would 
appear to have been arrived at after Barrisdale had had a series of interviews with Albemarle at 
Fort Augustus. Cf. Lang, Companions of Pickle, pp. 114 et seq. An attempt to capture him 
had been made in August {supra, p. 190). 



264 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

{Enclosure I.) 

Deposition of Archibald Macdonald. 

In Presence of Lachlan McNeill Provost, Alexander Johnston and 
William Finlay, Baillies of Campbeltoun — 

Compaired Archibald McDonald, Master of the Betty Sloop of 
Campbeltoun, who being solemnly sworn, depones that on Tuesday the 
i6th current [September, 1746] that he put into the Island of Egg in his 
way from the Isle of Skye, and there landed, and meeting with some of 
the Inhabitants asked them for news ; they made nice of giving any 
until they saw Angus McDonald one of the Deponents hands, who they 
were formerly acquainted with ; they inquired of the said Angus whether 
they were safe to communicate their minds to M^ McDonald ; he 
assured them they were very safe, upon which they informed him 
that there was at that time four French Ships of War in Lochnenua 
in Morar, but could not give any account of their Force, but that they 
would shew him a man of the island that was the day before on board 
of them ; that thereafter the Deponent met with Niven M^Alpen, who 
after some little conference acknowledged that he was in the fore- 
mentioned harbour the day before. And that he saw Four French Ships 
lying there at Anchor, Two of sixty Guns and the other Two of fifty 
Guns, and that he himself was on board each of them, and adds that 
the Pretender's son was on board one of the Fifty Gun Ships in his 
Highland dress and plaid ; the Deponent enquired how he came to 
know that it was the Pretender's Son, to which he answered, was he 
not to know a man that he had served so long ? ^ Adding that he was 
with him in all the actions in Britain ; likewise says that on board the 
other ships there were a great many well dressed men, particularly on 
board one of the Sixty Gun Ships he saw a Gentleman that wore a Star 
on his breast. At the time the Deponent had this Conference with 
M'^Alpen he saw the two Fifty Gun Ships sailing out of Lochnenua ; 
the wind being at North they stood on till they came nigh to the Island 
of Egg where they tacked and stood on towards the point of Aresaig, 

^ Macalpin can hardly be trusted here. It is alleged that he had been on board the 
French ships in Lochnanuagh on Sept. 15, and his information was imparted to the master of 
the Betty on the i6th. The Prince, however, did not embark until Sept. 19. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 265 

the one bearing away to the Loch from whence she came, and that 
they did the same the day before ; that the said M^Alpen told the 
Deponent that Lachlan McLean, Merchant in Glasgow, was in the 
said Harbour with a Cargo of Meal, which they took from him and 
made himself Prisoner, But by the interest of young Clanronald and 
Glenaladell he was set at Liberty and his Vessell returned him ; and 
that the Deponent saw the said McLean's Vessell under sail with the 
Two French Ships coming out of the Harbour.^ 

The said M^Alpen further adds that there is another Ship as large 
as any of the rest that Cruizes off Canna, and other two at the Island 
of S. Uist, and that the two last ships had landed Fourteen hun- 
dred men there and that the Deponent was informed of the men being 
landed E'er he left the Isle of Skye ; and that the Deponent has no 
further to add, only M^Alpen told him that the four ships had five 
Tenders who they kept always running their Expresses from them to 
Barra and Uist, and that they parted with the rest of the Fleet to the 
Westward of Uist. He could not condescend on their Number, but 
that they gave out they designed a Descent on my Lord Reas Country ; 

And this is the Truth &c. 

(Signed) ARCHD MACDONALD. 

Endorsed : — Copy — i^t Intelligence. 

In the Earl of Albemarle's of Sep' 25, 1746. 

(Enclosure II.) 

John Maclachlan to the Earl of Albemarle. 

Fort William Sep' 21st 1746. 
My Lord, 

A Fellow I had in the Braes of Locharkeg this moment 
informs me that last Thursday^ about 12 o'clock the Pretender's Son 
embarked on board a French Ship of War in the same Loch in Moy- 
dart where he first landed, attended by many of his Friends ; the names 
of all I can learn as yet your Lordship has annexed ; my Informer had 
this Intelligence yesterday from a man that was along with them 

^ Lachlan Maclean's statement is printed infra, No. CLXXL (Enclosure i. ). 
^September 18, 1746. The Prince embarked on the 19th. 

LL 



266 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

several days, and parted from them when going on board ; said he saw 
two ships, the one mounted above 60 Guns and the other 30 as he was 
told. 

My Fellow was misinformed as to the number of French Ships I 
mentioned to 3^our Lordship in my last, that were in Pollhew some 
time ago ; there were only two or three ships ; two Officers, the one 
a Captain the other a Field Officer were landed by them, both French- 
men, who carried Letters to the Pretender's Son ; ^ there are many 
circumstances which convince me of the certainty of the above 
Information. 

I have sent an Express to Major Gen^' Blakeney to acquaint him 
with this. 

I am &c 

(Signed) JOHN MACLACHLAN. 

A List of the People's Names who went on hoard with the Pretender's 
Son in Lochaliard in Moydart. 

Mcpherson of Clunie with others of his Clan, their names not known. 
Camron of Locheill. 
D^ Camron his Brother. 

Lodovick Camron of Torr Castle, Uncle to Lochiell. 
Col. M^Donell of Barisdile was said to go on board before 
the Pretender's Son got to the ships, as did Barrisdile's 
eldest Son. 
The two French Officers that landed at Pollhew. 
Lieut Allan Cameron of Lochiell's Regt. 
McDonald of Lochgarry. 
Many others whose names the Informer did not know ; they ex- 
pected a great many to joyn them Thursday afternoon ; they had a 
considerable Quantity of Baggage along with them, and told those that 
were not to go on board to have good hopes that they might expect to 
hear from them in five or six weeks, and might depend upon their 
returning with a considerable force. 

Endorsed: — Copy — 2d Intelligence. 

In the Earl of Albemarle's of Sep"^ 25, 1746. 

^They visited the Prince near Achnacarie on (probably) August 21, 1746. — Blaikie, 
Itinerary, p. 65. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 267 

CLXVII. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Sep' 27th 1746. 
My Lord, 

Since my last to your Grace by Express I have received the 
Enclosed Information which confirms the Pretender's Son having left 
this Kingdom. I could have wished we had some Cruizing Ships on 
the Western Coast to have prevented this accident, but we are so 
destitute of Men of War in this part of the World that upon my apply- 
ing to the Commodore for a Ship to look out for the French Privateer 
mann'd with Dutch which was to call at Peterhead, he could not grant 
my request ; only one of His Majesty's Ships in the Firth, and she 
with her Masts out of Order. 

The three suspected houses as mentioned in my information^ near 
this Town are to be searched to-morrow morning, not for the Pre- 
tender's Son, as I do not suppose he is there, but for any other suspected 
people ; the same orders are gone to Aberdeen in relation to Barkley 
the Quaker, who is a known Jacobite. 

I am with great Respect 
My Lord 
Your Grace's most Obedient humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. Oct. 3^. 

(Enclosure.) 
Intelligence. 

Intelligence received from the Hills by Lord Albemarle Friday Evening, 
Sept- 26'^ Dated Sep^ 22^ 1746 — Copied Word for Word. 

In Lochanaua arrived the 6^^ Inst, the Prince of Conti and the 
Louini,^ the first 22, the last 26 Carriage Guns, from S* Maloes with 

^S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 31. '^ Infra, Enclosure. 

^ Probably an attempt to reproduce the name L'Heureux. 



268 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

orders to bring off the Pretender if Possible. Colonel Warren and Cap* 
O'Birn was in the Louini, who sent in quest of the Pretender into the 
Country of Locharkeg ; they got Intelligence that he, Lochiel and 
brother with Clunie M^Pherson was gone to Badenoch, they got In- 
telligence they were all gone South either to one Barckley (a Quaker's) 
of Yurrie^ in Aberdeenshire to find out a Ship on that Coast, if that failed 
they were to go to the South and would conceal themselves at the Lady 
Bruce's at the Citadel of Leith, or the Lady Cunningham's of Priestfield 
near Edinburgh, or at one Norwell Hume's, a gentleman 12 miles west 
from Edinburgh ; upon the 16*^ the above Two Ships remained in 
Lochanua and proposed to go to the sea for a little and return in hopes 
of meeting their Man ; the 17*^^ there was no news of the Pretender &c. 
Young Clanronald was on board the Prince of Conti, also one McDonald 
a Bishop. Barisdile and Son were in the Louini. Two 60 Gun Ships 
was promised by France to be sent after those two Privateers ; as they 
had not appeared they dispaired of them. A Privateer was to Cruize 
on the East Coast and call at Peterhead, she is mann'd with Dutch but 
a French Ship. 

A Person told me last night that he saw one^ who was met by the 
Young Pretender, Lochiel, his brother and Clunie M^Pherson, on their 
way to catch these ships ; the one who told he met with them said he 
was carried back by them to the place where they Embarked on board 
the former Privateer. 

Extract of a Letter from Lord Fortrose to Lord Albemarle, dated Braan 
Castle, Sep^ 24th ly^e. 

This moment I had an Express from the Lewis Island with the 
Enclosed particulars, which I thought proper to communicate to Your 
Lordship, and tho' I have no reason to doubt but your Lordship before 
now has got notice of the Young Pretenders Sailing from Arisag the 
19th Current, yet I chuse to inform you of all I know. Lochiel, Clunie, 
Lochgirry, and the Youngest Barisdile went along with him. 

My concern for His Majesty's Service, my particular regard for 
your Lordship will make any directions you send me most agreeable to 
me, and you may be assured that nothing shall be wanting on my part. 

^ Barclay of Ury. His wife was connected with both Lochiel and Cluny. Cf. The Lyon, 
vol. iii., p. 47. 

2John McHevoul. Cf. No. CLXXHL (Enclosure ii.). 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 269 

Copy of a Letter from the Lewis from Colin Mackenzie, Captain of an 
Independent Company, dated Stornway, Sep^ the 19''' 1746. 

Late last night I had a Letter from Captain M^Leod at South Uist 
telHng, Two French Ships, the one of forty the other of thirty Guns, 
anchored at Loch Boisdale this day fortnight and sailed towards Skye 
next morning, after they had taken the Guard at that Loch on board, 
kept them for some time and then dismissed them after asking several 
questions. Three men of War were here for sixteen days, went off for 
Garloch the 18*^ current, and this morning I have sent them the Letter 
with a boat and Crew that they may be in their duty. 

N.B. — This Letter was writ to Lord Fortrose. And the Guard 
mentioned to have been seized was Highland Militia. 

Endorsed : — Copy, Intelligence. 

In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Sepr 27, 1746. 



CLXVIII. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Sep^ 30th 1746. 
My Lord, 

All I can collect since I had the honour of writing to your 
Grace by the last Post is what I take the Liberty to enclose. The 
Informer to his knowledge gives no farther account than to the 16*^, 
but says he was told the 19th, when he was set at Liberty by the 
Camerons who had detained him three days, that the Pretender's Son 
was then not heard of; if those French Privateers remain upon that 
. Coast, I hope they may be met with by the Loo of forty and the Glasgow 
of Twenty Guns ordered by Commodore Smith from the Orkneys 
round to look for them. The Bridgewater will sail from Leith to- 
morrow in quest of the Privateer said to be cruizing off Peterhead. 

We have searched three of the four houses mentioned in the 
Information I sent your Grace by the last post, and orders are gone 

^S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 35. 



2f6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

to Aberdeen to do the same to the Fourth ; ^ hitherto we have met 
with no success, having found neither Arms or suspected persons in 
any of the houses we have searched. 

Being told that Lord Forbes, of Majer General Fuller's Regiment, 
has obtained His Majesty's Leave to buy a Lieutenant Colonelcy, I 
take the Liberty to recommend Captain Scott to purchase the Majority.^ 
I know him to be a very pretty man and a diligent Officer ; he has been 
a Captain Twelve Years, and always attended his duty at Gibralter. 
I am with y^ greatest respect 
My Lord 
Your Grace's Most obedient and most humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. Oct. 6^^. 

(Enclosure.) 
Declaration of Donald Macdonald. 

Edinburgh, 28 Sep"" 1746. 

Donald M^donald,^ Taylor in Cannon Gate, declares That he was 
born in the Island of Uist, under S' Alexander McDonald, and that 
young Clanronald and several other persons of Distinction in Lochaber 
being indebted to the Declarant in the way of his Trade, he went in 
March last to Lochaber to try to get payment, but meeting with little 
success, and by reason of want of health, has been detained ever since in 

^I.e., Barclay of Ury's. In a narrative communicated to Bishop Forbes by Donald 
Macpherson, Cluny's youngest brother, occurs this passage: "At other times they had infor- 
mation that he [the Prince] lurked in the shires of Angus or Mearns, and a search was made 
for him in the most suspected places of those shires, and particularly Mr. Barclay of Ury's 
house in the shire of the Mearns, whose lady is aunt to Locheil by the father, and to Cluny 
by the mother, was most narrowly searched, while he [the Prince] was quite safe and 
unconcern'd about 'em in the Cage and others his dwellings in Benalder." — The Lyon, vol. 
iii., p. 47. 

^Captain Carolina Scott was gazetted Major in November, 1746, in the room of Major 
Wentworth dismissed. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 551. 

^ Cf. The Lyon, vol. iii., pp. 90, 97, whence it appears that in later years Donald sometimes 
acted as Gaelic interpreter to Bishop Forbes. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 2/1 

that country, and as he is well affected to His Majesty's Government/ 
did occasionally give Information to the Campbells, and being now sent 
by the Deputy Governour of Fort William To the Earl of Albemarle 
with the following Intelligence, Declares that upon Saturday the 6* 
Instant there came into Lochnanua near Lochaniard two French Priva- 
teers, whereof one the Prince of Conti, mounting 22 Carriage beside 
several Guns, commanded by Cap*^ Lynch, an Irish man, the other, 
Privateer called the Louini,^ mounting 26 Carriage Guns besides Swivels, 
was commanded by a French man. On board of this last was Colonel 
Warren, a man about 40, and Cap* O'Birn, a man about 30. Both 
ships were well mann'd with French and some Swedes, 300 was said to 
be aboard of the largest, and 250 aboard of the smallest ; and immedi- 
ately upon their arrival, search was made every where for the Pretender's 
Son. Declares that on Friday the 12th the Declarant went along with 
young Clanronald on board the Prince Conti, and dined there with 
several persons, who the Declarant supposed mostly belonged to the 
crew of the said Ships ; knew none of them except one, M"" Sheridan, a 
young man who he understood was master of Horse to the Pretender, 
and nephew to Sheridan ^ who landed with the Pretender's Son ; at 
Dinner, he heard that the Pretender's second son* had hired the above 
two ships from one Butler at S* Maloes, from whence they were sent by 
him, with orders to come to the West Islands of Scotland to carry off 
the Young Pretender, if possible he could be found, and not to leave the 
Coast (unless forced away) until he was found and got aboard. 

And Declares that Sunday the 7*, the day after the Ships arrived. 
Captain O'Birn with Sheridan went to Glenaldale in Moidart, about Six 
Miles from where the Ships lay, in quest of the Pretender's Son, and 
Alexander McDonald of Glenaldale went himself to the Foot of Arkeg 
in search of him,^ having heard he had lately been there. But at that 
place, being informed that the Pretender's Son, Lochiel and his Brother, 
with Clunie M^Pherson, were gone to Badenoch, Clunnis Cameron 
immediately sent his son Alexander, a sturdy young fellow, to Bade- 

^ He was also trusted by the Jacobites. John Macdonald describes him as having been 
stationed by him to observe the motions of the French ships, which entered Lochnanuagh under 
English colours, on Sept. 6. C/. The Lyon, vol. iii., p. 382. 

^ UHeureux. ^ Sir Thomas Sheridan. 

^ Prince Henry, afterwards Cardinal York. ° Cf. The Lyon, vol. viii., p. 382. 



2/2 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

noch in quest of them, where he was told that they were all gone South. 
The Declarant could easily observe the Pretender's Son's friends were 
all in great pain for fear of being disappointed in finding him, and par- 
ticularly heard the Gentlemen with whom he dined aboard the French 
Ship say, that if the Young Pretender was going South, he would first 
call at Barclay of Yurrie's near Stonehive, in hopes that He might get 
a Ship provided to carry off the Young Pretender, Lochiel &c., and if 
they met with any disappointment there, then they would probably go 
Straight South to the house of one Norwell Hume, a gentleman Twelve 
Miles West from Edinburgh, or to the house of Lady Bruce in the 
Citadel of Leith, or to the Lady Cuningham's house of Priestfield near 
Edinburgh, which last Lady, they said, had given the Pretender's Son 
;^20oo while he was at Edinburgh. Saturday the 13*^^ Barrisdile and 
his Son went aboard of those Ships, where they remained on board 
all night, and next morning Barrisdile having left his Son aboard, 
returned home, which is about Twelve Miles from the place where the 
Ships lay, in order to Settle his affairs, but the Declarant was told that 
how soon Barrisdile returned aboard, he and his Son would be detained 
prisoners aboard, because he had carried off some of the money that 
came last from France ^ without accounting for it ; and it was also said 
that he had undertaken to betray and deliver up the Pretender's Son, 
which young Clanronald did not seem to believe.^ The Declarant 
observed that the French Ships were deeply loaded, but did not observe 
or hear that they had landed any sort of thing, Declares that they were 
in want of Meal in Moidart, where the Price was raised to 16 shillings 
the boll or 8 stone. That the French Ships seized a Ship from Glasgow 
with Meal, and carried Lachlan McLean ^ the Master and his Crew 
aboard of them, and offered the Meal to the Country people for nothing, 
and upon their appearing afraid to accept it. The French carried part of 
the Meal aboard of their own Ships. 

^I.e., the money landed at Borradale in May, 1746, and thence conveyed to Loch 
Arkaig. Of the seven casks which contained the treasure one was stolen immediately upon 
its being landed. Barrisdale was present. Cf. Lang, Companions of Pickle, p. 134. 

2 Mr. Lang {Companions of Pickle, p. 116) supposes that Barrisdale had the impudence 
to venture on board the French ships in pursuit of information which he could give to the 
Government. It appears rather from Donald Macdonald's evidence that Barrisdale intended 
to leave the country. 

5 Cf. No. CLXXL (Enclosure i.), infra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 2/3 

That when the Declarant left Lochnanua, Tuesday the 16*^, the 
said two French Ships were still there, for no account had then arrived 
about the Young Pretender. That he heard the Ships were to take a 
trip to sea and to return there or thereabouts and try all methods to 
get Intelligence of and bring away the Pretender's Son. 

And the Declarant heard them say that the King of France had 
promised to send 60 Gun Ships after them to Escort them, but as there 
was no appearance of them, they doubted if they would come, and 
therefore they were determined that how soon they got their prize 
aboard, they would make the best of their way to France without wait- 
ing for those ships. The Declarant also heard them say that there 
was a French Privateer, mann'd with Dutchmen, to Cruize upon the 
East Coast, and was to call at Peterhead to carry off Glenbucket and 
any other of the Rebels that could be met with. 

The Declarant in his way hither was stopped at Strontian by three 
of the Camerons armed with Fire Arms, who laid hold of the Declarant's 
money, being in all about £^1, which he had recovered from his 
Debtors, and after detaining him three days, they dismissed him and 
returned him only £4 of his money. During this time some persons 
arrived in Strontian who had left the French Ships at the place above 
mentioned on Friday the ig^^l^, and who said that there was then no 
accounts of the Pretender's Son at that place. Declares that the 
Camerons were in Arms in Small parties, and that Ludovick Cameron 
of Torr Castle had one of the largest parties with him. Declares that 
'tis believed among the Rebels that the money which came in the last 
French Ships was hid at Arkeg towards the Foot of Locharkeg under 
the keeping of Doctor Cameron, Brother to Lochiel. The Declarant was 
told so by young Clanronald.^ That those aboard of the French Ships 
were enquiring for Pilots for the Orkneys, in case they should be obliged 
to return that way, for they said they came by the West of Ireland. 

The Declarant further says that the Two Privateers wanted much 
to get Lord Lewis Gordon to carry him to France, in order, as they 
said, he should be made Colonel of a Second Battalion of Royal Scots ; 
and likewise that Captain Linch told Bishop McDonald that the French 
Gold that had come over to Scotland in Spring last '^ was collected by 
one Butler, an Irish Priest, among the Popish Churches abroad. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Sept 30* 1746. 

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278 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

CLXXI. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinr Oct. 8th 1746. 
My Lord, 

I send your Grace two Papers received lately from the Hills, 
as a farther confirmation of the Pretender's Son being sailed the 20* 
of the last month ; the Reflections of the Auther of Number 2 I shall 
leave to the Decision of my Betters. 

I should be Extremely obliged to your Grace if you would let me 
know His Majesty's Commands in relation to the two Independent 
Companies I ventured to keep on Pay, of which I acquainted your 
Grace in mine of the 31st of August in answer to yours of the 28th of 
that month, with orders to reduce the whole. I then desired to be 
informed of His Majesty's Pleasure, and his approbation of my Conduct 
on that head, at the same time I beged to have my instructions signed 
by my Royall Master, as those I act under at present are given me by 
His Royall Highness, which is not (as I imagine) according to Form ; 
besides these above mentioned Applications, I asked Several Questions 
relating to particular People and Cases ; to all this I have had no 
answer ; a line at any time from M^ Stone will Satisfy me, who 
With the greatest Respect remain 
My Lord, 
Your Grace's most Obedient and most Humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endarsed : — Rd. 13th 

{Enclosure I.) 

Lachlan Maclean to Captain Macleod of Tat^isker. 

Since I parted with you last in Sky, I had the misfortune to be 
subjected to a Deal of Distress ; as the Boat by which this goes to your 

^S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35. No. 4. 



THE ALBEMAkLE PAPERS. 



279 



Country is just going to sail, have only time to tell you that upon the 
3rd Instant [September] we were put back by a Contrary wind from 
the South head of the Island of Egg, and put into Lochnanoua upon 
the main, where we were stopped by Contrary Winds 'till the 6^'^, when 
about 4 in the afternoon we saw two large Ships making for the Bay 
before the Wind. We all concluded they were English men of War, as 
several of them were upon the Coast, but after they came to Anchor 
they sent their Boat with 16 men, boarded our vessell, told us we were 
prisoners of War in the French King's name, carried us all on board 
their largest ship, called the happy Frigate, Commanded by Cap* Boullue, 
mounted 34 Guns, 12 pounders, 24 Swivels, and as near as I could learn 
220 men. The other Ship was the Prince of Conti, 24 Guns, g pounders, 
20 Swivels and about 160 men. As soon as we were carried on board 
the largest ship, we were Examined by one Colonel Warren, who had 
the Sole Command, as I came to learn afterwards, of that Expedition, 
viz*, to carry off the Pretender and as many of the Chiefs of Clans con- 
cerned in the Rebellion as could be found. 

I soon asked if they would admit me to Ransome. I was answered 
it was their opinion it could not be done, but told me I should have a 
more positive answer in a few days ; then they took an Inventory of our 
Ship and Cargo and money, put 6 of their men on board our vessel and 
one Officer. 

The first eight days we were on board no answer could be procured 
relating to our Fate ; upon the 11* Current young Clanronald, Glen- 
aldale, with 5 of their Inferiour Gentlemen and Ten private men or 
Servants came on board the Happy Frigate ; next day Clanronald 
and some of his men were sent on board the Conti ; upon the 13th 
I saw Barisdile first and Second come on board the Frigate and 
after some Hours Stay go to the Conti. Upon the 15^^ the Two 
Ships got under Sail, as did our Vessell, but the Wind soon coming 
contrary they came to Anchor. Upon the 16*, the Wind being at 
North, they sailed out of the Bay, and after Cruizing till the Evening 
'twixt Sky and Egg they returned and came to Anchor in the same 
Bay. 

We hourly looked in vain for deliverance from our Ships of War, 
but to our Grief none appeared. 

I came now to learn that the Officers were convinced that our 



280 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Vessel! was not fit to go to Sea with them, and so renewed my appli- 
cation for Liberty upon Ransoming, which they seemed to be willing 
to agree to, but upon no terms till they were sure to get clear of the 
Coast of Britain ; however they allowed the Terms of Ransoming to be 
committed to write, my offer being £i$o ; they told me it best to be 
more. 

About six in the Evening after sitting to Supper a Message came 
from the Conti, upon which Colonel Warren and the Captain of the 
Frigate got up in great hurry, got on their best clothes, ordered us, 
except one of our hands, on board our Vessell with our Chests, where 
we remained guarded by their men and an Officer till two next morning, 
the 2oth, when Colonel Warren and one of his Officers came on board 
of us, having with him two printed Sheets of paper, all the Blanks of 
which he had before filled up, and ordered my Schipper and me to sign 
them, one Copy of which I have with me, all being in the French 
Language ; he told me by those papers we were bound to pay for Vessell 
and Cargo £"180, for which he took one of our Hands as Hostage ; he 
was in Top spirits and seemed greatly elevated with his extraordinary 
success, telling me plainly he had now got the Prince, meaning the 
young Pretender, on board, with Lochiel and Clunie M^Pherson, and 
now he would carry off my Guard and set me at Liberty, and so they 
both sailed 'twixt two and three in the morning 20* CurrV the wind 
very fresh at North, but instead of one hostage, contrary to promise, 
carried off two of my Hands, leaving me only the Schipper and other 
two. 

We sailed for Toppermorie as soon as the Condition of our spoiled 
Vessell and Rigging and the weakness of our Crew admitted, but as 
our hardships were to be continued, we were put back with the wind at 
S. West last afternoon to this place. 

I know you'l communicate this in the proper manner and you may 
depend on the Genuinness of so much. 

Being determined how soon I arrive at Toppermorie, or any con- 
venient part of the Main, to run Express to Glasgow with as minute 
an account of the whole as I can possibly recollect. I am here now in 

1 This definite and reliable information settles the hitherto somewhat unsettled question 
of the precise time of the Prince's departure. Cf. The Lyon, vol. iii., p. 52. 



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an Island and have got this opportunity by mere chance to send you 
this. 

(Signed) LA. MACLEAN. 

From on board the May 
of Glasgow in the Bay of Rame 
22nd Sepr 1746. 

As near as my Schipper can judge they have taken above 50 Bolls 
of our Meal without pay, besides 5 bags of flour and as many of Beans, 
and all the loose things on board the Vessell. 

Endorsed : — Copy No. i. 

In the E. of Albemarle's of Oct. 8, 1746. 

{Enclosure II.) 

Intelligence. 

My Lord, 

Since I was honoured with yours I ^ did not chuse till now to 
give an account of what passed at the meeting I had with Lochiel and 
Clunie, as what occurred since has such a near connection with the 
other, that relating the first would be to no purpose without the last. 
At that meeting it was consulted whether to provide a Ship immediately 
for carrying them off, or wait to see if the Pretender would make his 
appearance among them. I advised Lochiel to surrender himself to 
you, but the other opposed it, and then it was resolved that Lochiels 
brother and Lochgary should go in search of the Pretender, and were 
determined to find him out if in any part of the Main Land ; accordingly 
they go, and I come home, and as soon as he was discovered they were 
to acquaint me of it ; in six days thereafter I received a Letter from 
them giving account that he was found ^ with six of Glenmorison's men 
whom he met accidentally in the Muir three or four days after he made 
his escape out of the Isle of Sky, and passing in the night time thro' the 

^ I cannot identify this informer. He was evidently intimately in touch with the 
Prince's most trusted companions. 

^ Lochgarry and Dr. Cameron found the Prince in the Braes pf Achnacarie on August 2j. 
1746. 

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282 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Gentries that were posted at the head of Locharkeg, he travelled three 
days and two nights all alone, without meat or drink except water, and 
by accident met with those six men, with whom he continued for a 
month and some days, living upon flesh and water the whole time ; 
when Lochgarry and the Doctor met him, he would fain persuade them 
to gather together as many as they could and acquaint all their Friends 
to come to a Body in order to procure their peace or die sword in hand ; 
this proposal was communicated to Lochiel and Clunie but they refused 
it, calling it a Don Quixot Scheme, and tho' they should be willing, 
that it was impossible to raise one man ; ^ and therefore advised the 
Pretender to come and stay with them for his greater Security, and that 
they would endeavour to provide a ship in a short time. Accordingly 
he was prevailed upon to come to them about the 7th Inst, where he 
stayed to the 15*^'^ when they were acquainted by Express from Clan- 
ronald that two 30 Gun ships arrived in Arisaig inquiring for him ; 
immediately he, Lochiel, Lochgarry, John Roy Steuart and Doctor 
Cameron went off in all haste, leaving Clunie behind with directions 
how dispose upon some money left with him amongst the distressed 
People ; ^ they went on board Friday the 19* and set sail at 12 o'Clock 
leaving Clunie, Clanronald and Ardsheall behind, with assurances given 
them of his sending more ships for them and others distressed as soon 
as he arrived in France, in case he did not succeed in getting Troops 
to land in Scotland some time before the first of March. He does not 
doubt but he has influence enough upon the Courts of France and Spain 
to support his Pretensions with as many Troops as can be conveniently 
transported, and as he has gone and will make his application in person 
I am convinced he will prevail upon them to make something of an 
appearance for him, and tho' his interest is considerably weakened in 
Scotland, yet if he arrives at the head of any Foreign forces he will be 
joined by several, unless the Government will prevent it by some more 
political method than what has hitherto been advised. Now, my Lord, 

^ In his narrative (Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 124) Lochgarry describes himself as the author 
of the proposal to again resort to arms. 

^ The Prince joined Lochiel in Benalder on August 30, 1746, and set out to the coast to 
embark on the French ships on September 13. 

3 The Prince's letter to Cluny on this matter is facsimiled in my Rising of 1745, 
p. 218. 



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Permit me to give you my sincere sentiments on that head, as I happen 
to knov/ the situation of the Country, the Strength of that party and the 
indinations of the people. The Government has used most of those 
concerned with the utmost Rigour, and certainly their Crime deserved 
no less according to the established Laws of the Kingdom, but it's my 
opinion that Principles of Government as well as principles of Religion 
thrive best under persecution, and notwithstanding of all the severitys 
with which they are used, yet if His Majesty would please to grant an 
indemnity to all except such as are attainted, there is not a Pretender or 
Chief in Europe could ever afterwards prevail upon them to raise in 
Arms against the Government at least for 30 years. And tho' the 
Nation was invaded by Foreigners and they invited to join, they would 
reject it with scorn, as former usages and the favour of an Indemnity 
would be so recent in their memory. As your Lordship is entrusted 
with the Affairs of this part of the Kingdom, you are the only person 
capable of representing things in their true colours, and your opinion 
will be regarded and your advice followed more than any body else in 
Scotland. I do assure you I do not presume to prescribe Rules to your 
Lordship, but I think it worthy a man of your high Station to be the 
Instrument of contriving a Scheme that will prevent so much uneasiness 
to the Government, and I am persuaded they know what the High- 
landers can do when encouraged on the one hand, or provoked and 
enraged on the other ; and let me assure you another attempt will be 
made in this young man's favour very soon, and it will be no small 
disappointment for him to see the Highlanders refractory in joining. 
There are several Great men in Scotland depending upon the favours of 
the Court that may be of a different opinion from what I hint at, yet 
they may be ignorant of the peoples inclinations. 

If I see or hear any thing that is worth communicating to your 
Lordship, I'll not slip one moment to acquaint you of it, and the very 
first Ship that arrives will bring Account of what the Highlanders are 
to hope or fear from France ; for Dispatch and haste I make use of this 
Character, and that I am persuaded it is not in danger of falling into 
an Enemy's hand. You may depend on all I wrote to be fact ; if your 
Lordship pleases either to give me directions or orders by a Letter, let 
particular Phrases or Expressions be wrote in the other Character, 
as it may be liable to several Accidents before it may come to my 



284 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

hand. Y"" Lordship may depend upon my Sincere Attachment to your 
Interest. 

I am &c, 

24 Sept. 1746. 

P.S. — The Pretender was within 100 yards of Culcairn when 
killed and would infallibly fall into their hands if the party had not 
then Stopt.^ Barisdile is gone with him, but it is given out he is 
carried prisoner. 

Endorsed : — Copy No. 2. 

In the Earl of Albemarle's of Oct. 8, 1746. 



CLXXII. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edenburgh Oct. ye 15th 1746. 
My Lord, 

Your Graces private Letter of ye 7*11 of October gave me all 
ye pleasure you can imagine, as it contained fresh proofs of your usual 
goodness to me, which at all times I shall endeavour to deserve by a 
most sincere affection and thorough attachment to your Grace. Your 
Leave to correspond in a familiar way shall be Laid hold of by me with 
great satisfaction, flattering myself that you'll then allow me to ask 
your advice in some things that may occur and your protection in 
others, and I only expect a few Lines from M^ Stone in answer to 
my Letters. I am extremely thankfull to H.R.H. the Duke for his 
favourable opinion of me, and for joining with your Grace and M"" 
Pelham in procuring me a small supply of cash, of which I am much 
in need, for I am obliged to Live here at an extraordinary expence, this 
being ye Town of passage to and from ye Hills for all the officers ; 

^This cannot be correct. Captain George Monro of Culcairn was shot near Loch 
Arkaig on August 31 {cf. supra, No. CLIX. (Enclosure i.)). On that day the Prince was at 
Mellaneuir in Benalder. — Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 68. 

^Addit. MSS. 32709,70/. 59. 



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besides I must entertain y^ people of some consequence left in ye 
country, this pleases them, and moreover it supports ye character of 
the Commission His Majesty has been pleased to honour me with, 
which I hope I shall discharge hereafter to his Liking and ye approba- 
tion of my friends, tho' I must freely own I shall never be fond of itt, 
going abroad with H.R.H. is all I covet ; this in all probability (unless 
wee have a peace this winter) must happen next spring, to recover 
ye honour of the Brittish Allies under such a chief, for whos honour, 
support, and glory, our troops will readily spend ye Last drop of their 
blood. I don't apprehend this last affair has been of very great 
consequence ; wee have Lost little,^ ye Dutch have fought, a thing 
unknown before, the french have suffered much, and did not persue, 
and ye allyed army are returned where they were two months ago, 
and our success upon ye coast of Britanny must make us amends for 
this event, besides the hopes of good news wee have reason to expect 
from ye Imperialist and Sardinian Troops entering Provence and 
Dauphine will give a new turn to dejected spirits. I congratulate Your 
Grace at being very well with our Master, permitt me to say it is 
always in your power to be so when you please, devesting yourself 
of little jealous thoughts that any other people are more in his favour 
then your Grace, which puts you out of Humour and makes you shy 
of conversing with him ; forgive me, my Dear Duke, if I explain myself 
too plainl}' upon this subject. I am much obliged to your Grace for 
mentioning Bury's name with so much kindness in your Letter to me ; 
that he and I may always deserve your favour and countenance is ye 
most sincere wish of 

My Dear Lord Duke 

Your Grace's 
Most obedient and most devoted humble servant 

ALBEMARLE. 

I beg my humble respects to My Lady Dutchess. 

^The casualty list of the engagement near Liege is in Scois Magazine, vol. viii., p. 495. 



286 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

CLXXIIL 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh October 15th 1746. 

My Lord, 

I have great reason to be pleased with your Grace's Letter 
of the 7* Instant, with which I was honoured by Jackson the Mes- 
senger, and am extremely thankful to your Grace for answering so 
particularly every Paragraph of my Letters down to the 30* of the 
last month. 

His Majesty's approbation of my conduct gives me the most 
sensible satisfaction. I beg your Grace will lay me at His Royal 
Feet and assure him that I am wholly devoted to His Service, that my 
utmost care and attention shall be employed in securing the Peace and 
tranquility of this kingdom, And that I shall with the most fervent 
Zeal endeavour to establish in the hearts and minds of those people his 
interest, and that of His Royal Family. 

I shall always make use of the power His Majesty has given me 
to accommodate differences and heal up Breaches that may happen 
between the Civil and the Military part of his Subjects, and when at 
any time my endeavours that way succeed it makes me particularly 
happy, as I know His Majesty's utmost wishes are that all his Subjects 
should live together in perfect peace and unanimity. 

I am glad His Majesty approves my having kept two of the 
Independant Companies still in pay, which (if he consents) I shall 
continue 'till the three additional Companies of Lord John Murray's 
Regiment are in a capacity to take their duty. I shall use all the 
means in my power to put them in a condition as soon as possible 
for this service, and shall then give orders for reducing the Two In- 
dependant Companies, not being willing to keep any body of useless 
Troops as a burthen to the Government. 

I am endeavouring to compleat Lord Loudoun's Regiment as fast 
as possible. His Majesty will find by the Returns ^ that there is already 
a very considerable alteration in their numbers, but I cannot help 

^S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35. No. 9. ^Cf. No. CLXX., supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 287 

thinking that Regiment would do much greater service abroad than 
at home ; my reasons are very obvious and I believe I need not trouble 
your Grace with repeating them. 

I flatter myself your Grace will persuade Aneas McDonald to 
discoyer some things that may be of use. I am confident he knows 
enough if he can be prevailed upon to speak out. 

The Secretary at War has transmitted to me His Majesty's order 
for holding Courts Martiall. I am thankful to your Grace for having 
ordered such parts of my Letters to be laid before him as relate to his 
Office, and shall (in consequence of your Grace's direction) punctually 
correspond with him concerning any thing that may relate to the Detail 
of the Forces under my Command. 

Before I was honoured with your Grace's Letter, I had several 
people employed to procure all the Evidence they possibly could against 
Lord Lovatt, and I hope that we shall be able to collect more than 
enough to do his business. 

I have wrote by this Post to General Blakeney to send hither on 
board any one of His Majesty's Ships of War, Hugh Frazer, Lord 
Lovatt's Secretary, The Master of Lovatt, Major Kennedy, and Captain 
O'Neille ; when they arrive they shall be confined in the Castle of 
Edinburgh 'till His Majesty's pleasure is known concerning them, and 
I shall defer till that time sending your Grace the state of their cases 
and that of Captain O'Brien, as L shall then have an opportunity of 
being more particular. 

I am overjoyed beyond Measure at what your Grace tells me con- 
cerning the Criminals at Carlisle,^ but could wish from my heart His 
Majesty had ordered the whole to be executed the same day ; defering 
it may be dangerous, as they will put in practice all methods to make 
their escape, and leave no scheme untried to effect it. 

I shall transmit to your Grace a List of the several Prisoners now 
in Scotland, distinguishing (as your Grace directs) such as are His 
Majesty's natural born subjects, and such as are French officers, and 

^ The number of prisoners at Carlisle amounted to three hundred and eighty-five, of whom 
one hundred and nineteen were committed for trial. Of that number forty-three pleaded 
guilty, thirty-seven were found guilty, eleven were found guilty and recommended to mercy, 
thirty-six were acquitted, five were not tried, and upwards of thirty who were confined to gaol 
on suspicion were discharged. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 438. 



288 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

shall speak to Lord Justice Clerk to collect the particular cases of each 
individual, but I can assure your Grace of both those together we have 
not above Twenty in all the Goals in this Kingdom. 

I have not yet received from the Secretary at War any account 
relating to the additional Companies belonging to the Several Regi- 
ments in this Kingdom. I impatiently expect them, as they will be 
particularly useful in recruiting the Battalions and putting them in a 
condition for immediate Service. 

It will be extremely difficult to find any Evidence against McDonald 
of Glengary, as none but Rebels know any thing of his behaviour. 
Lord Justice Clerk and myself are of opinion that he might be useful in 
convicting others ; if he can be prevailed upon to act in that capacity 
your Grace shall be acquainted with it. 

The Murder of Captain Munro^ has sensibly affected all His 
Majesty's Friends that had the pleasure of knowing that unfortunate 
Gentleman ; all methods have been made use of to discover the Wretch 
that perpetrated that Villany, and we have so far succeeded as to dis- 
cover who he is, and the places where he now conceals himself; his 
name is Dugal Roy M^gilleraydule, alias M^ilong, Father to the man 
who was shot by Captain Grant when he marched through that Country ; 
he is a Rannoch man, and was brought from thence by Lochill for 
cutting his Wood ; immediately after committing the Fact he returned 
to Rannoch, where he has two brothers with whom he commonly lives. 
Lord Glenorchy's steward, or one Cameron his Forrester, are the pro- 
perest people to apply to for apprehending him ; these I have sent 
orders to, and could wish Lord Glenorchy was spoke to by your Grace, 
that his Commands might strengthen mine. 

I sent to your Grace the Petition of the Argylshire Gentleman ^ 
with a view that His Majesty should maturely consider it before he 
came to any resolution. 

My utmost care shall be employed in compleating the Battalions 
under my command with all possible Expedition, and I hope to have 
them in such order by the Spring as they may be ready to act where 
ever His Majesty's service should make it necessary. 

The three Regiments of Dragoons are marched from hence for 
their Quarters in England ; the two that are to remain here will require 

1 Supra, No. CLIX. (Enclosure i.). "^ Supra, No. CLXL (Enclosure ii.). 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 289 

great pains in perfecting. I shall use all mine in endeavouring to make 
them such Regiments as His Majesty may approve of, but this will be 
a work of time. 

The weather begins to grow cold in this our Northern Climate, 
and bedding for the five Companies in the Castle extremely necessary, 
which makes me long for its arrival, that those Companies may be 
properly accommodated. 

The escape of the Pretender's Son is now beyond all doubt, our 
future care must be employed in apprehending those chiefs of his party 
that remain behind, amongst which are many of some consideration 
(vizt) Clunie, Ardsheils, Cameron of Torcastle, Young Clanronald, old 
Glenbucket, Lord Lewis Gordon and many more. 

Your Grace's observation is a very just one, and nothing is to me 
a more convincing proof of the disaffection of that great part of the 
Country than that of his lying so long concealed amongst those people, 
and that he should be able to elude our narrowest and most exact 
searches, and at last make his escape notwithstanding the great 
reward offered to apprehend him. 

Whatever depends upon me towards putting this Country into a 
condition to prevent any farther attempts of this infamous and wicked 
stamp. His Majesty may firmly rely upon every step I am capable of 
taking, which shall be calculated to establish his interest and to root 
out if possible even the very name of Jacobitism and Rebellion. His 
Majesty's Servants should take it seriously into their Consideration what 
is proper to be done to attain this desirable end, and should propose 
such methods to His Majesty as would conduce to the finishing this 
good work. Fort George, Fort Augustus and Fort William should be 
made strong, defensible, and capable of containing considerable Garri- 
sons ; the Barrack of Inversnaid at the head of Loch Lomond should 
be made defensible and capable of containing a Company or two ; this 
place is so situated as to protect the Shire of Dumbarton and the 
Country between the Clyde and the Forth from the inroads of their 
troublesome neighbours, and would prevent a most licentious Clan 
(vizt) the McGregors, from Robbing, plundering and laying waste the 
Country about them, which they have done for many years with im- 
punity. 

It would be highly requisite that the officers quartered in those 

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290 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Forts and Barracks proposed to be erected should be empowered to 
put the Laws in Execution that relates to the disarming of the High- 
lands, the change of their habit, &c. ; this would effectually answer all 
the ends of the Act of Parliament, and I hope be a great means of 
procuring peace and quietness to His Majesty's loyal Subjects in this 
part of his Dominions. 

Your Grace makes me extremely happy in telling me that His 
Majesty is determined with the assistance of His Parliament to make 
such wise regulations and provisions as may effectually secure and 
protect this Kingdom from any farther attempt of that iniquitous kind 
we have lately experienced ; his wisdom will suggest to him such 
prudent measures as may for ever frustrate any future attempts of the 
Pretender and his Adherents, protect and secure the persons and effects 
of his well affected Subjects, and bring to condign punishment the 
Aiders and Abettors of this unnatural Rebellion. 

I hope I shall always give His Majesty continued proofs of my 
Zeal for his service, and I wish for nothing so much as frequent oppor- 
tunities to show with how much duty, sincerity and affection I am 
attached to him and His Royal Family, as likewise to assure Your 
Grace that 

I am with the greatest respect and esteem 
My Lord, 
Your Grace's most Obedient and most humble Serv* 

ALBEMARLE. 

P.S. — The late Action in Flanders has shown us that the Dutch 
will fight, which I think is in some measure a compensation for the loss 
of it. I can't help congratulating your Grace upon this Incident, as I 
think it a great point gained. I impatiently expect a Confirmation of 
Sinclair's success before Port L'Orient and Port Louis as it will greatly 
distress the French in their East India Trade. 

I send your Grace some enclosed papers, being the last I have 
received. No 3 came to my hands not two hours ago. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed: — Rd. ig. By Express, 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 29I 

(Enclosure I.) 
Intelligence. 

The state and situation of the Pretenders affairs in the Highlands 
and that of his adherents is as follows. Clunie is entrusted with money 
to be distributed to such of the distress'd people as he thinks proper in 
order to facilitate their escape out of the Kingdom if it be their choice, 
and at the same time to keep up the spirit of the Highlanders as much 
as possible by intimating to every particular the encouragements that 
are still expected and promised by France, and to let them know that 
the Pretender's only view in going was to hasten these succours and 
represent the situation of the Country and the strength of the Forces in 
Scotland and how they are stationed and quartered upon the East and 
West Coasts. These amusements will be more creditted as Clunie staid 
behind when he had an opportunity of going off. Yet the Pretender's 
Son left full assurance with all his friends that in case he did not suc- 
ceed he would not lose a moment in sending ships to carry off every man 
that inclined to go. For this purpose young Clanronald was left behind 
to be at hand to receive such ships and dispatch Expresses with accounts 
of their news. Doct' Cameron's wife living in Strontian is to convey 
these dispatches to Angus Cameron, brother to Glenevis in Dounan in 
Rannock, who is always to know where Clunie can be had, and he is 
likewise to know Ardsheall's motions ; as there is a broad ferry betwixt 
Strontian and the Country of Appin, and all boats stopt except such as 
have a pass from the Governour of Islandstalker, it's impossible to 
receive the Truth of any thing that happens in Clanronalds Countrey till 
its conveyed forty miles through Lochaber. 

Clunie relying upon the Strength and attachment of his Clan, who 
are all united to him, ventures to sculk among them, and Donald 
M^Pherson of Breakachy keeps close along with him. They stay at 
the side of Locherich, but venture to go into Badenoch, and are often 
at Breakachy's house. Clanronald is for the most part at old Scottos's 
house in Knoydart and some times at Glenaldell. Torcastle lives for the 
most part in Ardgour, and when he crosses Lochy and comes near Fort 
William he discovers himself to Duncan Cameron in Tolly, Angus 
Cameron of Kinlochliven and Duncan Cameron his brother, and these 



±g2 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

are the best and surest places of retreat he has. Ardsheall has a small 
boat that is rowed by four servants, and when any ways alarmed steers 
off for Collart Glencoe, Kinlochliven, and sometimes to Kingerloch. As 
these are the only people of consequence that the Government has to 
look after, I can assure you the places mentioned are their haunts. 

The common people such as are berried and their cattle driven, 
especially among the Cameron, Clanronalds, Glengarys and Glen Mori- 
sons, are all ready to espouse the smallest opportunity to appear in 
Arms again, and for that purpose have certainly concealed some Arms, 
tho' the number cannot be determined. Keppoch's men and the people 
of Appin are determined never to rise in Arms again, nor can the 
M^Phersons be prevailed upon to engage, notwithstanding Clunie's 
interest. The smallest encouragement from the Government or a shew 
of lenity has more effect upon the Cameron people than the greatest 
severity. However, some people out of a selfish principle rather than 
any overgrown Zeal for the support of the present Government, may 
give it as their advice and opinion that the only way to suppress any 
further insurrections in the Highlands is to root out the Inhabitants, 
but this maxim is ill grounded and if pursued will be of worse conse- 
quence. If the lower class of Gentlemen, I mean such as served Cap^s, 
Lieu^s and Ensigns in the Rebellion, would be allowed to surrender 
their Arms, and protections granted them by the Commanding Officers, 
it would effectually prevent any further insurrection ; but bail ought to 
be taken for every man's behaviour, and at the same time obliged to 
take the Oaths ; this they would reckon no hardship, and tho' twenty 
thousand French should land to-morrow they would not get one single 
Highlander. These are the present sentiments of the Highlanders. 

Endorsed : — Copy No. i 

in the Earl of Albemarle's of Oct. 15, 1746. 

{Enclosure II.) 
Declaration of John McHevoul. 

At Fort William the 4th October 1746. 

This day John M^Hevoul, who lives in Blaick in Ardgour, was 
solemnly sworn by George Douglas, Baillie of Maryburgh, who upon 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 293 

Oath declared that as he the said McRevoul was travelling in the 
Country near Lochiel's house he was met by the person called Prince 
Charles, by the Rebels with Lochiel and his brother, and McDonald of 
Lochgarrie (and some did not know him) in company, and was by them 
carried back ^ to a place called Boradale in Arisaig upon Lochnanua, at 
which place they arrived on the afternoon of Saturday the 20^^ of Sep- 
tember last,^ and that evening the aforesaid persons embarked on board 
two ships that then lay there, and immediately after the said Persons 
were got on board, the ships went off to Sea and did not wait 
for Cameron of Torcastle, Stuart of Ardsheal, Clunie M^Pherson and 
others who were expected to get there, and those who the Deponent 
saw at that place lamented these persons Misfortunes that they had 
lost so favourable an opportunity to get off The said M'^Hevoul 
declares that he knew personally the young Pretender, Lochiel and 
brother with Lochgarrie, and that he was told a sum of Money was left 
for Clunie M^Pherson and others who could not get off at that time. 

That this M^Hevoul's Declarations may be depended upon, Evan 
Cameron, who was Employed by me to procure a certainty of the 
Pretender's escape, made Oath that he knows the said M^Hevoul and 
believes what he affirms to be matter of fact, and further he affirms 
upon oath that he was assured of the same by two other persons in the 
Country, who also told him they were present when the Young Pre- 
tender went on board the Privatier and that it was into the one called 
the Prince of Conti he embarked.^ 

That these two Persons made oath as above is attested by me. 

(Signed) GEORGE DOUGLAS. 

Endorsed : — Copy No. 2. 

In the Earl of Albemarle's, Oct. 15, 1746. 

1 Probably on September i6 or 17. Cf. The Lyon, vol. iii., p. 45. 

2 Friday, September 19, was the actual date. 

" There is conflicting evidence upon this point, but there can be no doubt that it was 
on board UHeureux that the Prince sailed though he first boarded the Prince de Conti. I 
have discussed the matter in the Introduction. 



294 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

{Enclosure III.) 

Intelligence. 

Copy of a Paragraph of a Letter from the Captain of Dunstafnage 
to the Deputy Chamberlain of Argyleshire : — 

Octob"^ 12* 1746. 
Mr Snell Governor of Dounart told me yesterday that upon Thurs- 
day last ^ a vessel from the Southward called purposely at his Garrison 
to acquaint him that the two French Ships with the Pretender's Son 
on board were taken by our Ships of War, but told no particulars where 
or when they were taken, or their Authority, the Garrison having asked 
no questions, but taking it for granted. I thought proper to run this 
Express that you might be acquainted with it, though I believe there's 
no truth in it.^ 

Endorsed : — Copy No. 3. 

In the Earl of Albemarle's of Oct. 15, 1746. 



CLXXIV. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh Oct. 27* 1746. 
My Lord, 

At four o'clock yesterday morning by express I received the 
honour of your Grace's dispatch of the 22"^ Instant, with the Copy of 
Sr Alexander McDonald's Intelligence to Sir Everard Fawkener, which 
I shall take the Liberty to answer article by article, and to prove to 
your Grace, if I can, that it is notoriously groundless in every point ; to 

^ October 9. 

^As a fact there was not an atom of truth in the report. The Prince was already in 
France, having landed at Roscoff, near Morlaix, on September 29, — Scots Magazine, vol. xi., 
p. 639. 

*S. P. Scotland, Geo. II, Bundle 35. No. 13. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 295 

that effect I must in the first place assure you that I have now procured 
proper people (some residing amongst the disaffected Clans) to inform 
me of their present steps and hopes, and that all I have heard from 
them and others since my last Intelligence to your Grace of the 8*^^ 
Instant corroborates exactly, (viz) that the Pretender's Son went on 
board the Conti ^ of Twenty two Guns in company with a larger Ship 
of Thirty Guns on the ig* of the last month and sailed the morning 
following, and that since then no Ships of Force have been seen on the 
Western Coast ; That Clunie M^Pherson and some more under him 
had money left with them to supply the poorer sort of people, and that 
they gave out that the Pretender's Son and a considerable Force 
from France was to return soon to this country ; to prevent such 
a design it would be necessary to have men of War of a sufficient 
force to cruize upon our Coast, of which we have none at this time ; 
for Commodore Smith, who by this Express writes to the Lords Com- 
missioners of the Admiralty, told me that he had but Two Twenty 
Gun Ships and Two Sloops to guard the East and West Coasts of this 
kingdom. 

S"" Alexander McDonald calls the force of those two ships ^ the one 
sixty and the other fifty guns, but we know they carried but thirty and 
twenty two ; ^ he says the Pretender's Son went on board one of them 
on the nth, when he only did the 19*; he says those two ships con- 
tinued cruizing till the 25*^^^ when it is fact that they sailed for the 
coast of France the 20th, and this must be well known to your Grace 
by the time of their arrival near Morlaix,* which defeats the intelligence 
of those ships returning to our coast in company with five more ; the 
more impossible this appears likewise to me, since Commodore Smith 
has no account of it from the two sloops in that sea. 

Colonel Warren commanded some land forces they had on board, 
and not the Prince de Rohan and Lord Clare ; Sir Alexander makes 
these forces amount to seven hundred, some Walloons and some of 

1 C/. Note 3, p. 293, supra. 

2 I.e., the Prince de Conti and UHeureux. 

3 As has already been pointed out, this is doubtful. The Prince's own statement is 
probably the most reliable, and he gives the ship on board which he sailed thirty-six guns and 
the other thirty-two. 

* On September 29. 



296 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Ruth's regiment. I don't know of any of the first being in the French 
King's service, but I well know that none of the Irish Brigades are 
cloathed in blue faced with red as described by him, and if they landed 
ev'ry day as he mentions, what reason had they to order the country 
people to scout for them, for in those parts they had nothing to fear from 
His Majesty's forces, for they must have been informed we could not 
subsist there ; upon the whole I can admit of no part of his letter being 
well founded, but that those two ships landed sixty men in the Isle of 
South Uist, and their taking from thence two men to pilot them into 
Aresaig ; upon due consideration I am of opinion his intelligence is 
founded to give a fresh proof of his great zeal for His Majesty's service, 
to praise young Clanronalds upright behaviour, to show the necessity of 
keeping the Independant Companies and Militia in pay in the Isles of 
Skye and Uist, and that McDonald of Boisdale, in case he escapes hang- 
ing, should have a claim upon the Government for the cows that he says 
the French and the rebells carried off his estate ; besides I must beg 
leave to observe to your Grace, that he ought to have sent this informa- 
tion to Lord Justice Clerk and myself, that had we found it properly 
grounded, we might immediately have acted in consequence of it ; 
however improbable I look upon this account, I beg of your Grace to 
assure His Majesty that I shall again send more people to know the 
truth of it, which account I shall immediately transmit to you, and that 
I shall act with the utmost diligence at this time, but cannot think of 
removing any of His Majesty's land forces from their present quarters, 
as they are so properly dispersed in the Kingdom by His Royal 
Highness's order before he left us, that they may in a very short time 
assemble when it may be thought necessary. 

Our Magazines at Inverness, Perth and Stirling are well supplied, 
and everything is ready in those parts to give them the reception they 
deserve in case they should think to land any foreign force. 

The wrong intelligence this gentleman has given (for I can't help 
calling it so) occasions a complaint I must make of him, that since the 
reduction of the Skye Militia, his three independant Companies, and 
M^Cleod's three, raised in that Island, I have never been able to get 
the arms that were given them at the breaking out of the rebellion, 
tho' I have sent repeated orders to Lord Loudoun, to order them to 
Bernera, to be shipped from thence for Glasgow, and brought by land 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 297 

from thence to this castle ; this delay on various pretences has made 
me very uneasy. 

But what gives me at present most concern is the miserable state 
of Houghton's regiment at Fort William, where they daily die of an 
epidemical distemper; to save that corps and many of His Majesty's 
subjects, I have by proper advice thought of the following scheme, 
which though expensive is absolutely necessary ; (viz) to remove the 
sick (about two hundred in number) from thence by sea to Irwin, and 
from hence, med'cines, surgeons and hospital stores to the said place for 
their accomodation, and from Glasgow to that garrison, vinegar, pitch, 
brimstone to wash and sweeten their barracks, and the Board of 
Ordnance having sent them no bedding, to provide them in the mean- 
time with such as the City of London has given us. 

We had sometime ago an account of Danish and Swedish ships 
being freighted by the French to carry off the Pretender's son and his 
adherents, but as that service was done by the French themselves, 
I have reason to believe those ships will not sail from their several 
ports. 

If contrary to my expectation we should have occasion to take the 
field, it will be absolutely necessary that the Board of Ordnance should 
send us camp necessaries, (viz) kettles, canteens, hatchets etc. as 
ordered by His Royal Highness before he went to England, for without 
them the tents already sent can be of little use. 

It appears odd that young Clanronald, a subject of the King's, a 
captain in the French service, should have surrendered himself to 
McLeod in the Isle of Skye, who gives him his liberty upon his parole 
without ever acquainting me with it. 

Miss Flora McDonald sailed this morning on board the Bridge- 
water under the care of Captain Knowler ; her behaviour has been such 
during her confinement, that Commodore Smith and General Campbell 
begs of your Grace, that when she arrives she may rather be put into 
the hands of a messinger than into any common prison, this favour the 
poor girl deserves, her modest behaviour having gained her many 
friends.^ 

Major General Campbell, who sets out from hence after the Kings 

' C/. The Lyon, vol. i., pp. iii et scq., where many details of Flora Macdonald's behaviour 
and treatment as a prisoner at Leith are given. 

PP 



298 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Birthday, sends your Grace by this express copies of the evidence 

against the prisoners sent by the Furnace, Captain Ferguson. 

I am, with the greatest respect 

My Lord 

Your Grace's most obedient humble serv* 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 30 by express. 



CLXXV. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh Oct"^ 28* 1746. 
My Lord, 

Since my last of yesterday by express to your Grace, I 
received the enclosed piece of intelligence, which tho' of no great con- 
sequence, will serve to confirm my former opinion, that not one article 
of S' Alexander's letter is to be depended on ; if any part of his 
intilligence had been true, this person would undoubtedly have men- 
tioned it, but as he is quite silent on that head, I am convinced nothing 
of the kind has happened. 

I am just now informed from Inverness, that Lachlan Macintosh, 
late merchant in that town, who was a lieutenant colonel in the rebel 
army, is now in London, and lodged in the house of M' Alexander 
Mcintosh, a woollen draper in Throgmorton Street, Coaphall Court, 
near Lothbury. I give this information to your Grace that, if you 
should think proper, he may be apprehended. 

I am, with the greatest respect 
My Lord 
Your Grace's Most obedient humble servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, 

Endorsed: — Rd. Nov. 3'^- 

*S, P, Scotland, Gep. If, Bundle 35, No, 13, 



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(Enclosure.) 

Intelligence. 

Extract of a Letter from Lochabar dated 

Oct' 2^^^ 1746. 

Yesterday there was a meeting of the Camerons about five 
miles from this. Lochiel's brother was there, and the person who tells 
me of it says, they have resolved to lay hold on the villain who murthered 
Culcairn and give him up to Justice when found ; unless this be done, 
they expect a visit from the whole race of Monros joined to a part of 
Lord Loudoun's regiment. I am assured that Clunie McPherson is to 
distribute money amongst the rebels to support them, and ev'ry one of 
the common rebels are made believe there will be a grand invasion very 
soon, and that it is to be at many places at the same time, that Lochiel 
is to conduct those intended for this country, and that the Pretender 
himself at going off promised this ; further that a very large ship is 
intended to land here and destroy us ; all this the poor miserable 
wretches believe will happen, but they say, whatever they may do at 
home. in the Highlands, they will never go again into the Plaine. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Octr 28, 1746. 



CLXXVI. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

' Edinburgh, Nov' 4'^ 1746. 

My Lord, 

Since my last to your Grace I have had no Intelligence of 
any consequence, except that Two French Privateers have been lately 
seen off the coast of Moydart and Aresaig, landed some men upon the 
Island of Egg to enquire about the Pretender's son, and being told he 

^ S. P. Scotla7id, Geo. II. Bundle 35. No. 15. 



300 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

was gone, they gave out that they would carry any Rebell Officer to 
France for Five Pounds. I cannot help regretting the want of some 
Ships of War upon the Western Coast, who might pick up some of 
those Privateers and prevent those petty insults. 

I am with the greatest respect, 

My Lord, 

Your Grace's most obedient humble servant 

ALBEMARLE. 

P.S. — Since I writ the above I have received the enclosed Intelli- 
gence, which I transmit to your Grace. 

His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. io*^h. 



(Enclosure.) 
Intelligence received from Appin. 

Dated 2gth Qcf 1746. 

That on the lo^h of Oct^ last, every private man who did not 
deliver up his Arms in Appin and neighbouring countries received five 
pounds sterling reward, and them that were in the station of Officers in 
proportion. 

Stuart of Ardsheils was for some time past with Cameron of 
Torcastle, Lochiel's uncle. It is thought them two have the direction 
of distributing the money in that neighbourhood. 

The cash was received from Clunie M^Pherson ; my information 
bears that they have cash in abundance, and in very high spirits, in 
expectation of great things from France. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's of 
Nov. 4* 1746. 



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CLXXVII. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle. ^ 

Edinburgh Nov"^ 8th 1746. 
My Lord, 

I am ashamed that I have not been able to send your Grace 
the names and the particular state of the prisoners in the several gaols 
in this Kingdom, that now amount, as I am informed, to near six 
hundred ; when I received your Grace's commands in your letter of the 
7th of October, I immediatel}' spoke to the Lord Advocate to take the 
proper informations, who has informed me this morning, that by the 
delays he has met with from the Deputy Sheriffs, he has not been able 
to make the list you required, and that he is very apprehensive, that if 
the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act is not prolonged at the first 
meeting of Parliament, numbers of those prisoners must be set at 
liberty and suffered to do all the mischief they can in the Kingdom ; he 
could wish some able person was sent from England to assist him, as 
Mr. Paxton was after the year 1715. 

I beg your Grace's pardon for having detained Jackson the 
Messenger so long, but as he was formerly a servant to an officer in 
this country, and knows a good many people, he has been very usefull 
to me. 

I am, with the greatest respect. 

My Lord 

Your Grace's most humble and obedient servant, 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 
Endorsed : — Rd. 14*- 

CLxxvni. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh Nov^ 15th 1746. 
My Lord, 

I send your Grace the enclosed pieces of intelligence, with a 
memorial concerning the state of the disaffected Highlands ; in this 

1 S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35, No. 17. ^Ibid., No. 23. 



302 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

last there are a great many things that may be of use, amongst others, 
that your Grace has been before acquainted with ; the whole I think 
worthy of your serious perusal, after which you will be able to judge 
whether it may be necessary to lay it before His Majesty. 

The intelligence comes from people whom I have employed and 
can depend upon ; they are now in the heart of the rebel's country, 
let into all their secrets, and faithfull in communicating to me what 
they can pick up. I do not think the money ill bestowed that is laid 
out upon them, and if your Grace approves of it, I shall still continue 
them in this service. 

That part of Colonel Duroure's letter which hints at the difficulty 
of making a scrutiny into several unwarrantable and illegal practises 
carried on in the Highlands without interfering with the doers and 
managers under potent chiefs, is worth your Grace's attention, and I 
should think it highly proper that the Duke of Gordon (who is the 
most powerfull near Fort William) was spoke to upon this subject ; 
directions might be sent down to such people as he employs for the 
transaction of his affairs there, as would prevent any difficulties that 
might arise from the scrutiny Colonel Duroure proposes, and would 
give a sanction to His Majesty's troops to put the laws in execu- 
tion. 

I have likewise enclosed to your Grace a memoriall from the 
gentlemen of Rosshire, setting forth their fears, and the danger they 
apprehend of being visited by their rebellious neighbours. I sent your 
Grace something of this kind before, but as this is more full, and sign'd 
by Lord Fortrose and several gentlemen in the country, they give me 
no rest, and oblige me to transmit it. 

There is a report here that one Taylor,^ a shoemaker in this town, 
who raised a Company of Militia for the service of the Pretender's 
son and who promised to deliver the Castle of Edinburgh to him, but 
fail'd, was taken and since tried and condemn'd at Carlisle, is to be 
reprieved ; this man has so infamous a character and is so notorious 
a Jacobite, that I cannot help wishing that His Majesty's mercy did 

1 Robert Taylor was made prisoner during the blockade of Edinburgh Castle {cf. Scots 
Magazine, vol. vii., p. 443). Two speeches delivered by him upon his arraignment and 
sentence are in ibid., vol. viii., pp. 439, 441. His name is not among those who were 
executed {ibid., pp. 497, 543), and he, accordingly, must have been reprieved. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 303 

not extend to him. I hope your Grace will forgive the liberty I take, 
and believe me to be with the greatest respect, 

My Lord, 
Your Grace's most obedient humble servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 2ist. 

(Enclosure I. 
Intelligence from the Hills. 

Patrick Campbell left Inverary the 16*^ of October, and went to 
Mull and down that coast the length of Tobermorie, where he crossed 
but found no ship upon all that coast, but found the clan of McLean 
full of the expectation of a landing from France, and found by them that 
they would be ready to rebel whenever they had the opportunity. Patrick 
Campbell and Stuart his fellow traveller went over all the coast of Morvin, 
and into the country of Moidart, and by the clan of McDonald's ; 
they were all of the same mind with the clan of MacLean ; also 
found all the clan of Camerons the same, and in full spirits by the 
encouragement they had from the Young Pretender and Lochiel, upon 
their going to France. By information from a gentleman present at 
the Young Pretender's and Lochiel's going off, the Young Pretender's 
express words was, my lads be in good spirits, it shall not be long 
before I shall be with you, and shall endeavour to make up for all the 
loss you have suffered. I have left money for your subsistence that 
are officers and have also left money to provide meal for all the private 
men. 

Patrick Campbell understands there are a good many still in the 
hills with full arms that are underpay, particularly the Clan of Cameron's, 
and of the clan of McDonald's in the country of Moidart ; they are very 
scarce of meal, but daily expect a relief from Ireland ; they are very 
plenty of brandy, and are much supplied by M^Lachlan, the Governour 
of Fort William's son-in-law, and Patrick Campbell finds that M^Lachlan 
has been in hands with some of the rebels wives for meal ; this Patrick 
Campbell has made known to Colonel Duroure in order to take all care 



304 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

in that way of M^Lachlan. Patrick Campbell was told by the Collector 
of Fort William that there came some bills from the Isle of Man to be 
accepted by M^Lachlan, for brandy and rum ; this Patrick Campbell 
made known to Colonel Duroure. 

As to the murderer of Culcairn,^ Patrick Campbell was very well 
informed that the person who killed Culcairn was the boy's father who 
was killed by the party that Culcairn was upon, the day before Culcairn 
was killed. Patrick Campbell's information was so good that Patrick 
Campbell and Stuart his fellow traveller went to the town where the 
fellow stays, and how soon they went there, he made to the hills, which 
gives them good reason to believe he is the man. This Patrick Campbell 
made known to Colonel Duroure, in order to put some people upon their 
guard to apprehend the fellow. 

Patrick Campbell finds plenty of French gold upon all his travells 
with the people, and most with the Cameron's, but all the country is in 
general scarce of meal and of firing, and of cattle in most parts ; he 
also finds there is plenty of arms amongst them, but cannot hear of any 
hid. 

Patrick Campbell and Stuart his fellow traveller sets out from Fort 
William the fifth of Novem^ upon their way to Skye, and goes thro' 
all the country of Barisdale, and then returns by the country of the 
M^Phersons, and comes in by the Braes of Athol. Patrick Campbell 
cannot write any more untill he comes to Edinburgh, but if any sure 
hand offers shall write to Col. Duroure if anything extraordinary happens 
upon his way, and shall make all haste up to Edinburgh ; he will keep 
a journal of all his travels ; he received ten pounds from Col. Duroure ; 
at the bottom is a list ^ of the principall persons who went to France 
with the Young Pretender. 

Lochiel the Younger 
Doctor Cameron 
Cameron of Murlagan 
Allan Cameron 
Donald Cameron 
Alex^ Cameron 
Lochgarie 

1 Captain George Monro of Culcairn. ^ C/. p. 241, note, supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 305 

Barisdale Coll. and his son 
A son of Scottos McDonald 
John Roy Stuart. 
There was a good many private gentlemen besides. This Patrick 
Campbell had from a gentleman who saw them go on board, and heard 
the young Pretender say, if things did not answer expectation, there 
would be soon an opportunity of their following. Barisdale and his son 
were put in irons in close confinement by the Young Pretender's order 
as soon as they went on board. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's. 
Rd. Nov 15, 1746. 

(Enclosure.) 

Memorial Concerning the Disaffected Highlands. 

That those countries have been such a source for frequent rebellions 
is owing to the following causes. 

1. The tyranny of the Chiefs, who behaved as absolute sovereigns 
and made the Commons believe they were their property, and to be dis- 
posed of at their pleasure. 

2. The many branches that have grown from the great Families, 
who to ingratiate themselves with their Chiefs, and to enjoy the larger 
share of their tyrannical power, have been successfull instruments to 
keep the Commons in slavery. 

3. The manner of letting out lands in these countries to the common 
people, which has been from year to year, without a written lease, 
which was a great means of keeping the people in absolute dependance ; 
for upon the least disobligement, a poor man was threatened to be 
turned out the first term ; and such was the avarice of landlords and 
chamberlains, that when a man was more than ordinary industrious to 
cultivate his farm or make a convenient house, If another offered a 
crown more for his possession, he is turned out, by which it happened 
that improvements were looked upon among the common tenants as 
folly and indiscretion. 

4. Many gentlemen who depend on great families get leases of 
considerable parts of ground, the best of which they keep in their own 

QQ 



306 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

hand, and the poor people, who are very numerous, are obliged to 
court them for parcells of the worst of it, and besides a dear rent, they are 
oppress'd with such a burden of services that they are little better than 
a kind of slaves. 

5. Popish priests, Nonjurant ministers, and schoolmasters have 
been dihgent beyond expression to mislead the people by inculcating 
the doctrines of hereditary indefeasible right, and that nothing could be 
more monstrous or unnatural than to dispute the commands of their 
chiefs. 

6. Publick schools were a great rarity in these countries till of late, 
and all such as were zealous in promoting them, whether ministers or 
others, were frowned upon by the Chiefs and their instruments as busie 
and impertinent agents, who in time might come to undermine their 
authority, and rescue the people from their yoke. 

7. The great extent of parishes in the Highlands, by which it 
happens that in many there are 5 ordinary places of Worship at a great 
distance from one another, under the inspection of one minister, and 
many thousands in the far Highlands do not hear sermon above four 
times a year, tho' they have no other means but the labours of their 
ministers to direct them in their duty to God or man. 

8. In most parishes the living is so small that ministers are dis- 
abled to do the good they intend and the countrey would need, and 
instances might be given of several worthy ministers who settled in these 
countreys to forward the great ends of Religion and loyalty, but finding 
themselves not supported after struggling long with the insuperable 
difficulties, they at last gave over the enterprize and embraced the first 
opportunity of settling in the low country. By this means many 
parishes have been planted with weak men, whereas the sagacious and 
cunning Highlanders would require men of parts, learning and discre- 
tion to deal with them ; and the Chiefs were seldom averse to weak 
men, who they knew were not very likely to wrest the people out of 
their hands. 

9. Some gentlemen among the McDonalds, Camerons, and in the 
country of Rannock, had made such proficiency in the scandalous business 
of theft, that they methodiz'd it into a kind of regular trade, and kept a 
number of desperate ruffians and idle vagabonds in a constant depend- 
ance upon themselves, to bring in cattle to the countrey as they 



THfe ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 367 

directed, and the spoil was divided at their discretion. These ruffians 
were ready tools to raise the rest of the people at the rebellion, and 
being always in the exercise of arms, were the terror of their more 
peaceable neighbours; for it is a great mistake, that the people even 
among Camerons and McDonalds are all thieves ; 'tis well known that 
above the half of them abhorred the infamous trade, tho' they dar'st not 
make discoveries, or point out the criminals, and most of those who had 
families and anything to live upon were raised with great reluctance ; 
and among the other tribes, not above one in twenty of the common 
people took arms willingly ; they did it, as they thought, to shun present 
ruin. 

These seem to be the principal causes of the ignorance, barbarity 
and disaffection of so great a part of the Highlands of Scotland, and if 
these could be removed, the people, who are naturally ingenious and 
tractable to such as they think have good designs towards them, could 
easily be made usefull members of society, and faithfull subjects to his 
Majesty King George. 

As this is, beyond doubt, a proper time to bring these countries to 
order, and the people to their duty, the following scheme is humbly 
proposed : — 

ist That every man who lives by husbandry or grazing in these 
countries shall have a lease of his possession, at least for ig years, or 
rather for two lives. 

2. That all personal services shall cease, and that the time usually 
spent that way be employ'd in improving and enclosing their ground. 
By this means the people will become rich, and know the value of 
liberty and property, as they formerly felt the misery of poverty and 
slavery. 

3. That ev'ry Chief of a Clan, small or great, who has not given 
some proof of a good disposition towards the Governm^ in time of the 
late rebellion, or whose clan was in arms, tho' he himself staid at home, 
shall be obliged to live either in some Royal Burrough, or some other part 
in the Low Countrey of Scotland, at least 40 miles from his Clan. This 
can be reckoned no real hardship when the good of the publick requires 
it, & well constitute Governm^s that have been great lovers of liberty 
have oft restrained the liberty of a few for the safety of the whole. 

4. That such gentlemen as are known to have influence over the 



36^ ttiE ALBEMARLE MPEkS. 

Commons, tho' they were not in arms, yet if it afterwards appear that 
they were aiding or assisting to raise the men, that they be also obliged 
to live at least 40 miles from such men, in a well affected country, 
where their children will be rightly educated in principles of religion 
and loyalty, and the people entirely freed from their influence. A proof 
may be had to remove them if once the tenants had their leases, in 
many instances where a proof could not be had if their life or estate 
were at stake. Much has been said about taking away the jurisdiction 
of great Families ; this indeed would in some measure weaken them, 
but it's much to be feared that if the Chiefs and their underlings, who 
for many ages have used the Commons as slaves, be allowed to live 
among them, the best laws that can be made will prove too weak a 
force against rebellion, whenever encouragement is given from abroad. 

5. That in every competent district a baillie or chamberlain be 
appointed. That he be a person of known, good aifection to our con- 
stitution in church and state ; that he speak the Highland language, but 
that he be not of the clan among whom he is to live. That such Baillie 
let out the lands, collect the rents, and that he be impowered with the 
assistance of the minister and two discreet men of the parish, to be 
nominated by him, to make regulations for the good of the country ; 
such as how much ground ev'ry tenant shall enclose yearly, and with 
what materials, what heaps of stones and other incumbrances he shall 
remove, how much potatoes he must plant in waste ground &c. That 
he have power to apprehend thieves and other disorderly persons, and 
be a Justice of the Peace. 

6. That the said Baillie give in a list of all such as are reputed 
thieves, vagabonds, or idle persons once or twice ev'ry year to the 
proper officers, and their usual haunts, and that any who harbours 
or conceals them be prosecuted as aid and part in their trespass. 

7. That all Popish priests be appointed before a time limited to 
depart Britain and the Isles thereto belonging, and that it shall be 
criminal for any to harbour or conceal them after such time elapses. 

8. That ev'ry parish in the disaffected countreys be reduced to 8 
Scots miles in length and less as the place will bear, and the breadth 
according to the situation of the country. That any skirts of small 
value, that cannot without loss come under this regulation, be cast into 
summer grazings at the usual rent ; thus ev'ry person would have 



THE ALBEMAkLE PAPERS. 309 

access to hear sermon ev'ry Lord's day, and no place would breed up 
wild men, strangers to religion and society ; for all would have access 
to be instructed in the principles of religion, loyalty, and virtue. 

g. That in ev'ry Parish the church be in the middle ; that there 
be three schools at least in ev'ry Parish, one at the Church, and one 
in each end of the parish ; that no schoolmaster's salary be less than 
;fio ster., two acres of land and two cows grass, with a convenient 
house and garden, and that the people lead his peets ; that in a year 
after such schools are erected every minister be obliged to have one 
discourse ev'ry Sabbaoth in English. Thus the Highland tongue would 
wear out in an age or two and these people would not be barbarians to 
the rest of Britain. 

10. That the stipend of ev'ry minister in these countries be raised 
to £60 ster. and to the value of ;^5 ster. of the lands next adjacent 
to his house, rent free, besides the ordinary glebe allowed by law, and 
if the place be publick and much exposed to charges, there the stipend 
to be £"80. Thus ministers would be raised above contempt and enabled 
to use that hospitality, charity and other good offices which would 
much facilitate their gaining upon the people. 

11. That all papists that will not allow themselves to be instructed by 
protestant ministers get no leases, and if within three years they come 
not to church, they be obliged to leave the Kingdom, as a people whose 
principles are inconsistent with the safety of the State. That a list be 
made of their names yearly by the presbytry of the bounds, and that 
the nearest protestants be obliged to assist in making such lists, which 
are to be transmitted yearly to the Lord Justice Clerk. 

12. That all committees, at their yearly visitation of schools, trans- 
mit to the Society for propagating Christian knowledge lists of such 
children as do not attend the schools, as well as lists of those who do, 
and the reasons why parents neglect this duty. This method would 
make schools much thronger than they are at present. 

13. Besides the j^iooo his Majesty is pleased to bestow yearly 
for reforming the Highlands, which would be more profitably laid 
out in new erections, this design would require that a voluntary 
subscription should be opened all Brittain over, for all well disposed 
persons to contribute towards civilizing that deluded and miserable 
people, and if more money is raised than will be sufficient for the dis- 



3 to THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

affected Highlands, the overplus would be well bestowed in making 
executions and planting schools in the countreys well affected, as the 
shires of Argyle, Sutherland, etc. 

14. If such a design as this could take place, it would be requisite 
that a committee should be appointed, again the i^t of June next, to 
travel through those disaffected countries, and keep a journal, and 
mark the places proper for Kirks and schools, and report to the Lord 
Justice Clerk. That this committee consist of six members, viz — Two 
ministers from the presbytry of Edinburgh, two ministers from the 
presbytry of Inverness, and two merchants who understand trade and 
manufacture, to be named by the Justice Clerk ; and that every minister 
wait on them while they travel thro' his parish ; that besides assisting 
the ministers, these merchants should report what branches of trade 
and manufacture will suit the Countrey and the people best, and are 
likeliest to thrive there. This committee to begin their circuit at the 
Castle of Dalrops, one of Mcintosh's dwellings, and proceed in order 
thro' the countries of Straithnairn, Badenoch and Athol. If this work 
should be too great for one summer, two would accomplish it, or two 
committees might be appointed and divide the countrey 'twixt them, 
and by means of this committee the officers of State would have a true 
and uniform account of the Highlands, whereas hitherto they have had 
their accounts from different hands, in broken shreds, ev'ry man dis- 
playing his eloquence the best he could to shew the miserable condition 
of the corner he has been describing, and contending that it merits the 
first consideration. But after such committee have made their reports 
and given their opinion, the officers of State, or other proper Judges, 
will finally determine where such executions will begin, and how far 
they shall proceed from time to time, which will prevent much litigation 
and confusion. 

15. That the King's burses, as they fall vacant, and other funds 
how soon they can be had, be bestowed on young men of promising 
parts who speak the Highland language, as many hands would be 
needed for such work. 

16. That without loss of time, three ministers be appointed, 
proper for such work, in three different countreys in the Highlands, 
to correspond with all the ministers in the disaffected countreys, and 
to transmit once a month, and oftner as occasion requires, to the Lord 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 31I 

Justice Clerk what they can learn worth while from the several corners, 
of the disposition of the people, and what effect this rebellion has had 
on them, what news and stories the Jacobite gentlemen are spreading 
among them etc ; one of these to be had at Inverary or near it, and 
he to correspond with ministers among the M^Lachlans, McLeans, 
Camerons, and such McDonalds as hold of the Duke of Argyle. The 
second to be at or near Inverness, and he to correspond with the 
minister of Glengarry and the ministers among the M^Kenzies, Frazers 
and Mcintosh's. The third to be at or near Dunkeld, and he to cor- 
respond with the ministers on the south side of the Grampians in the 
disaffected countries ; and if the King has not a chaplain of Aberdeen, 
a fourth should be about Strathbogie. By this means the Justice Clerk 
will have the best intelligence from time to time of the state of the 
Highlands, and know as far as can be attained to what is a doing there. 

17. That if such a scheme takes place, the common people bear no 
greater burden than they do at present for the support of ministers and 
schools, as the least addition that way would tend to marr the design. 

After writing the above paper I observed a letter from London, 
insert in the Scots magazine for July 1746, Pages 312, 13, 14,^ setting 
forth the great advantage of civilizing those countries and proposing to 
raise a sum sufficient for that purpose by a voluntary subscription, which 
letter is well worth reading. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's. 
Rd. Nov^ 15, 1746. 

{Enclosure III.) 
Intelligence. 

Copy of a Letter from the Highlands. 

Dated Nov 4, 1746. 
My Lord, 

Just now I am honoured with yours, and I am so sensible 
of your civilitys, that I make not doubt of your good intentions towards 
me ; however I am determined to ask no favours till I make a return for 
those already received. 

1 It is signed " Philagathus ". 



312 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Since my return I have got a sight of Clunie's instructions, and if 
you think proper make your own use of it. There is ;£"2o,ooo left with 
him, part of which he is to distribute to the officers for present sub- 
sistence, and accordingly :^400 is given to the Camerons, £"200 to 
the M^^Phersons, ;^ioo to the Stuarts of Appin, some to the Frasers 
and McGregors ; ^ however I shall have an exact list very soon. The 
rest of the ;^2o,ooo is to be distributed among the greatest sufferers, 
at or before the first of February, in case no relief comes to them before 
that time. You may depend on't I shall not lose one moment to acquaint 
you of ev'ry thing that's new or worth your notice, and shall continue 

to be 

My Lord 

Yours etc. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Nov 15, 1746. 



{Enclosure IV.) 
Colonel Duroure to the Earl of Albemarle. 

The person ^ your Lordship wrote to me by Oct. 6*^ was with me 
Monday morning and proceeded on his circuit yesterday, after receiving 
ten pounds from me, and leaving me a letter to Lord Justice Clerk, 
which goes by this post. 

As he, no doubt, explains in it what he has only hinted to me, you 
will be informed that there are still great numbers in arms, tho' very 
much separated and in small bodies ; that they are subsisted with 
money, and their hopes kept up that they shall again be called together, 
and this I have likewise from other hands. 

1 According to the Prince's instructions to Cluny on the eve of his departure, ;^i5o was to 
be given to the " poor Glengarry men " ; ;^ioo each to the Stewarts and Macgregors ; ;^3oo 
to the Camerons ; £100 to Macdonald of Keppoch's widow ; £100 to Cluny himself. Cf. 
the letter in my Rising of 1745, p. 219. Mr. Lang has an interesting chapter on " Cluny's 
Treasure " in his Companions of Pickle, p. 129. For other statements as to the disposal of the 
treasure, cf. Chambers, History of the Rebellion, Appendix, and No. CLXXXIV. (Enclosure), 
infra, 

■^ Patrick Campbell, the author of Enclosure i., supra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 313 

One thing indeed observable within a very little while is the return 
of much greater numbers in this neighbourhood than I believe have 
deliver'd arms, but as a scrutiny into this and several other unwarrant- 
able and illegal practises cant with any effect be made by us without 
interfering with the doers and managers under potent chiefs, I have 
great reason to fear nothing preventive of mischief can well be done in 
this country unless some persons of weight in civil authority, and no 
way biased through affinity of any kind, would be appointed to particular 
districts ; that would give a sanction to what we may be impowered to 
do by force, without which, common prudence on the one hand, and 
zeal for His Majesty's service on the other, must subject us to an 
imputation of remissness, or too arbitary diligence. 

Extract of a letter from Colo Duroure 
to Lord Albemarle, dated Fort William 

Novr 5th. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Nov"^ 15, 1746, 

(Enclosure V.) 

Memorial. 

To the Right Honourable the Earl of Albemarle Commander in Chief of 

His Majesty's Forces. 

THE REPRESENTATION OF THE BARONS AND FREE-HOLDERS OF 
THE COUNTY OF ROSS. 

That the Camerons of Lochaber, the Macdonalds of Glengarry, 
Keppoch, Knoidart and Moidart, the Erasers of Glentfrafarrar with the 
several inhabitants of Glenmorrison have from time to time immemoriall 
infested their neighbours of this county with repeated acts of theft and 
robberys. 

That these thieves under their respective leaders having entered 
into the late Rebellion, and by the necessary and just steps taken by 
the army to crush that unnatural insurrection, and reduce these rebells 
by burning their houses and carrying of their cattle, oblidges them not 

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314 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

only to continue their former practises of theft, but even to be more 
hurtfull than ever. 

As the weel affected subjects of this county, who appeared for the 
Government in opposition to the rebells, and by their conduct prevented 
severalls from joining them, have ah'eady suffered by depredations 
committed upon such as appeared most forward in the King's Service, 
and particularly the officers of the late Independent Companys, who 
had some of their cattle carryd into Loachaber since the Reduction of 
said Companys. 

Lord Fortrose's estate borders with all these rebell countrys from 
east to west Sea, and by its situation is a frontier twixt these and all 
the weel affected people of the countys of Ross and Sutherland. 

It is therefore humbly expected that your Lordship will give the 
proper assistance of employing a part of the forces under your command 
to prevent the insults of these banditti by posting men at certain stations 
from the end of Lochorn to the midle of Glenmorison, with a few more 
to the north of these places, in such a manner as the Lord Fortrose, 
the Master of Ross, Sir Henry Munro, or their factors, will think they 
can be of most service to protect the county and seize these thieves. 
Which if your Lordship will be pleased to condescend to, will in a 
great measure protect this county, and prevent the ruin of his Majesty's 
weel affected subjects. 

William Ross of Baluazoun 

Thomas Ross of Calrossy 

David Ross of Priesthill 

David Ross of Inverchasley 

Simon Ross of Aldie 

Alex"" Ross of Pitcalnie 

Hugh MacLeod of Geanies 

Robert Ross of Achnidarah 

Duncan Ross of Kindeace 
Fortrose 

Alexr Mackenzie of Coul 

Alex^ Mackenzie of Fairburn 

Alex' Mackenzie of Ord 

Colin Mackenzie of Kilcoy 

Rod, Mackenzie of Reidcastle 



THE ALliEMARLE rATKRS. 3I5 

Geo. Mackenzie, Allungrange 
William Mackenzie of Suddie 
John Mackenzie of Belmaduthie 
Alex^ Mackenzie of Muirtown 
Rod. Mackenzie of Seatuall 
Lewis Mackenzie of Seatuall. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Nov'^ 15, 1746. 

CLXXIX. 

The p:arl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Nov^ 22"'' 1746. 

My Lord, 

The day after I was honoured with Your Grace's Letter of 
October 7^^ I communicated to the Lord Advocate the Paragraph 
wherein you desired a List of the Number of Prisoners still remaining 
in Scotland, with a particular state of their cases. I desired his Lord- 
ship would procure as soon as possible the said List, that it might be 
transmitted to your Grace, in order to be laid before His Majesty. 
Yesterday I received the Enclosed Paper, upon the perusal of which 
your Grace will observe that His Majesty's directions have been 
executed but very superficially by the Sheriffs Deputie of the several 
Counties, who have evidently glossed over the Crimes of the several 
Prisoners, or but very slightly touched upon them ; and in a more 
particular manner M"^ Cuthbert of Castle hill. Sheriff Deputie for the 
Shire of Inverness, who has returned near forty, and given the Crimes 
but of four or five, and that in so transient a manner that it will be 
■hardly possible for the Law to take hold of them ; those admitted to 
Bail, who were confined by His Royal Highness's orders at Montrose 
and other places, are not inserted in this List, and the Returns from 
the Western Counties and Argyllshire are not yet arrived ; when they 
are I shall transmit them. 

Major Kennedy, Captain O'Neill, the Master of Lovatt, young 

' S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35, No. 29. 



3l6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Clanronald,^ and Fraser, Lord Lovatt's Secretary,^ are expected here 
every hour by Sea from Inverness ; when arrived I shall take their 
examination myself, and I desire Your Grace will send me your Com- 
mands in relation to the Secretary, who I believe has been kept by His 
Royal Highness's orders as an Evidence against his Master. 

I had information yesterday from a man who saw them on board, 
that about three weeks ago, Lord Nairn and his son, Oliphant of Gask 
and his son, the present Lord Strathallan, Sir William Gordon, with 
several others, went from Arbroth in small Boats on board a Danish 
ship, and each paid fifteen pounds for their passage, but where bound 
is unknown to the informer;^ this might have been prevented if the 
Officers of the Revenue had done their duty, who never acquainted 
their Principals with it, but no better can be expected from them, as 
most of them are Jacobites. I have complained in form to the Com- 
missioners of their conduct, and have desired that they would take the 
proper informations against them. 

Since writing the above I have received the enclosed Letter from 
the Lord Advocate to your Grace, with the List of Persons against 
whom there is proof and that are not yet apprehended. I did some- 
time ago suggest to him that I thought calling upon Officers of Rank 
to be present at the examinations of the several Sheriffs in their district 
might be a means to compell them to do their duty, which he much 
approved of, but I have not heard that any one has done so in conse- 
quence of his orders ; and for a farther proof that I have omitted 
nothing in Obedience to your Grace's Commands, I send you his own 
Letter to me this afternoon, which will convince you that he has 
thoroughly understood my directions. 

I am with the greatest respect 
My Lord, 
Your Grace's most Obedient humble Serv*^ 

ALBEMARLE. 

P.S. — I am just now informed that Major Kennedy and the persons 
above mentioned are arrived at Leith, but not yet come on shore. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

1 Donald Macdonald ; not the Young Clanranald of the '45. ^ C/. No. CLXXXV., infra. 
^ Oliphant of Gask and his son iled into Aberdeenshire after CuHoden, and after hiding 
in the neighbourhood of the Dee, escaped to Sweden, where they landed on October 10, 1746. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 317 

After having sent my Letter to the Post Office, I received the 
honour of your Graces Dispatch of the 18*^ Instant. I opened mine to 
assure your Grace that I shall observe and obey His Majesty's Com- 
mands in the best manner I can to prevent the Dutch Officers recruiting 
in this Kingdom to enlist such of His Majesty's Subjects as have been 
in the late unnatural Rebellion, and to promote their taking Roman 
Catholicks in their Service ; this is a wise distinction that will give us 
some trouble, but we shall endeavour to acquit ourselves in the best 
manner we can. I have for that purpose summoned all those Officers to 
be with me to-morrow, to agree with them to effect this order and to 
give them all the assistance I can. 

I shall acquaint the Lord Advocate of Scotland of the suspension of 
the Habeas Corpus Act being prolonged,^ and of the contents of the 
Paragraph in your Grace's Letter concerning him. I fear it is too late 
for him to obey one part of it, directing him to use all legall methods to 
prevent any persons under Commitment in Scotland, on account of 
Rebellion, from being discharged or bailed, having mentioned in the 
preceeding part of my Letter, that severall had been allowed by the 
Lord Justice Clerk to give security for their appearance. 

I return your Grace many thanks for the Copy of His Majesty's 
Speech and the resolutions of both Houses of Parliament thereupon.^ 
I congratulate your Grace on the unanimity every body has shewn on 
this occasion, and on the Zeal and Cheerfulness they expressed for the 
support of His Majesty's Measures. I have ordered numbers of Copies 
to be printed of His Majesty's Speech and the resolutions of both 
Houses, and as this is Post day for most parts of the Kingdom, I shall 
disperse them accordingly. 

I again repeat, that I am with the greatest respect, 

My Lord, 

Your Grace's most Obedient humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 25, by Express. 

The Papers enclosed were sent to the Att. General. 

^ On November 21 the King confirmed the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act 
until February 20, 1747. 

^ The King's Speech at the opening of Parliament on November 18, and the Addresses 
of both Houses are inserted in the Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 513 et seq. 



3i8 The albemArle papers. 

{Enclosure I.) 

The Lord Advocate to the Earl of Albemarle. 

Friday Afternoon [November 21, 1746]. 
My Lord, 

If I had not been much engaged this afternoon I would 
have brought your Lordship the inclosed, which I send open for your 
perusal, that if your Lordship shall approve of it, you may take the 
trouble to seal and forward it with your own Dispatches ; and if you 
have any amendments to propose, let me know, and I will either come 
and receive your directions, or make them as you shall do me the favour 
to advise me, who am with great truth 

My Lord, 
Your Lordships most humble and most obedient Servant 

WILLIAM GRANT. 

I have just received the enclosed List by M"" Hume's Clerk, to 
which he tells me about 20 more may be added against whom we have 
already proofs in the Examinations we are possessed of ; the List may 
be compleated and given to your Lordship with the state of their cases ; 
they are persons of better note than most of the Prisoners. Your Lord- 
ship may mention this now or afterwards to the Duke of Newcastle as 
you think fit. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's of Nov. 22"<i. 1746. 

(Enclosure II.) 

List of Persons against whom there is a proof of their 
being in the late Rebellion and who are not yet 
apprehended or in Custody. 

Sir John Arbuthnot, late Banker at Paris. 
John Aikenhead, Merchant in Breichen. 
Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elsick. 
John Campbell of Kinloch. 
5 Alexr Campbell of Arslignes, brother to Lochnell. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 3I9 

Doctor Colvill in Dundee. 

Thomas Crichton of Ruthvens Jun""- 

James Drummond of Colquhabrie. 

William Drummond of Callander. 
10 George Drummond of Drummaquhaine. 

James Farquharson of Balmurell.^ 

Charles Frazer of Inverallochie. 
Frazer of Foyers. 

Charles Frazer of Fairfield. 
15 Robert Graham of Garvock. 

John Gall of Kinloch. 

David Garden of Laloun Jun^- 

John Haldane of Lanrick Sen"^- 

Alexr Haldane of Lanrick Jun^- 
20 David Hunter of Burnside. 

Charles Hay of Ranas Jun^. 

Sir James Innes of Innes. 

David Lindsay of Glenqueeth. 

William Murray of Taymount. 
25 William Murray his son. 

Anthony Murray of Grange. 

Malcolm McLeod of Raza. 

Murdoch M^Leod, his eldest son. 

James M^Kenzie of Carrie. 
30 McCulloch of Glaihch — Is in the New Gaol and try'd. 

Donald M^Leod of Bernera. 

James Menzies of Woodend. 

Arch'l Menzies of Shian. 

Mungo Murray, Kincairney. 
35 James Moir of Stonnywood. 
M^Kenzie of Fairfield. 

James McGregor of Glengyle. 

Henry Pattullo, Mer* in Dundee. 

James Robertson of Plairfellie, 
40 Duncan Robertson of Drummachein. 

George Robertson of Fascallie. 

^ C/. Mr. J. G. Michie's Records of Invercauld, p. 317. 



320 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

David Steuart of Kynachan. 

David Steuart of Balorhallan. 

John Steuart of Henton Jun^^. 
45 Andrew Spalding of Glenkilrie. 

Daniel Spalding of Ashentilly. 

Steuart Threpland of Barnhill. 

Sir John Wedderburn. 

Patrick Wallace, late Provost of Arbroth. 
50 Henry Bruce of Clackmannan. 

Robert Buchannan, Son to Dulaler. 
Crichton of Auchingoul. 

James Drummond McGregor of Balnacoul. 

John Graham of Kilmardinny. 
55 Walter Graham of Drunkie. 
Gordon of Kirkhill. 
Gordon of Aberleur Jun^. 

Robert Hamilton of Bardewie. 

Robert Murray McGregor of Glencarnock. 
60 Francis Masterton of Parkmiln, 

John Ritchie of Links. 

James Stirling of Craigbarnet. 

John Steuart of Annal Jun^. 

Alex^ Steuart of Innernochyle. 
65 James Steuart of Fasnacloick. 

Charles Steuart of Gourdie. 

John Steuart of Findynal. 

Robert Steuart of Killichassie. 

William Steuart of Garth. 

Alex^ Robertson of Strowan. 

Endorsed: — List of Persons not yet apprehended against whom 
there are Proofs of having been concerned in the late 
Rebellion, in the E, of Albemarle's Letter of Nov. 22"*^ 
1746. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 32 1 

CLXXX. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh Nov. 25th, 1746. 

My Lord, 

In my last Letter to your Grace I mentioned my Intentions 
of sending for the Dutch Officers, ordered by the States General to 
Recruit in this Kingdom, to acquaint them with His Majesty's Per- 
mission to raise the number of men they wanted to compleat their 
Corps ; and that His Majesty's commands to me might be obeyed I 
have given them the enclosed Instructions, and they have signed the 
Paper annexed to them, which I hope will prevent their inlisting any 
of His Majesty's subjects who were in the last unnatural Rebellion. I 
asked them in conversation whether they did not enlist Roman Catholics? 
to which they replied that they had positive orders from their Masters 
to take none. I beg the favour of your Grace to ask the Dutch Minister 
if this be true ? for I should be glad to clear this country of their great 
numbers. 

I was acquainted last Saturday evening by a message from the 
Adjutant of the Castle of Edinburgh, that Lady Ogilvy had made her 
escape sometime that day. Immediately sent S' Peter Halkett, Lieu- 
tenant Colonel to Lee's Regiment, to take the proper information, 
which I enclose to your Grace, and by which it appears she got away 
the day before.^ I have put the two officers in arrest that were on 
Duty on Friday and Saturday for their neglect, and shall order a 
General Court Martial to try them, as also the Serjeant that was 
orderly, and the Turnkey, who was an old soldier belonging to the 
Castle. This Lady was no Prisoner of ours, being committed by Lord 
Justice Clerk, who gave such orders as he thought most proper for 
keeping her in safe Custody. She had People allowed to come to her, 
upon producing Warrants either from His Lordship or the Lord Advo- 
cate ; in the day time and till ten at night she had the Liberty of the 

^ S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35. No. 30. 

'^November 21. She had been taken at Culloden, and had been confined in Edinburgh 
Castle since June 15, 1746. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 289, 

SS 



322 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Castle, at which time she was to be locked up and seen by the Officer 
of the Guard, as well as at the Relieving in the morning ; both which 
those Gentlemen neglected on account of her supposed illness, or else 
we should have been more certain of the time she made her escape. 
The Lord Justice Clerk has promised me to issue out Warrants to take 
up Miss Hepburn, M'' Johnstone and Miss Johnstone, the Lady's 
brother and sister, who assisted her on this occasion. The Prisoners 
mentioned in my last letter, which came from Inverness, are all close 
confined, and I believe in no danger of getting off. 
I am with y^ greatest respect 
My Lord, 
Your Grace's Most Obedient humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 
Endorsed: — Rd. 28, by Express. 

{Enclosure I.) 
Instructions for the Dutch Recruiting Officers.^ 

His Majesty having been pleased to signifie to me by His Grace the 
Duke of Newcastle, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State, his 
Consent that the Scots Officers in the Service of their High Mightinesses 
the States General of the united Provinces might enlist his subjects in 
this part of His Kingdom to recruit the Scots Regiments in the Pay of 
the Republick, on condition they avoid enlisting any who have been in 
the late unnatural and wicked Rebellion, I therefore desire (in order 
that this service may be effected according to His Majesty's Commands) 
that those Officers do give their names to me, with their Ranks, the 
Regiments they belong to, and the Counties in which they propose to 
beat up for Voluntiers, specifying the name of the County each Officer is 
to recruit in. 

That they do give me their word and honour that they will ship off 
no men but from the Port of Leith, and that they will shew them to me 

1 On this matter c/. Ferguson, Papers illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the 
Service of the United Netherlands, vol. ii., pp. 269 et seq. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 323 

to be reviewed, and receive Papers from me to allow the Masters of 
Ships to take them on board ; on those conditions the Gentlemen are 
allowed to recruit whenever they please. 

And all Civill Magistrates, Justices of the Peace or whomsoever it 
may concern, are hereby required to give them all the assistance in 
their power, provided those Officers strictly observe the above mentioned 
directions. 

Given under my hand at Edinburgh this 24* day of November 

1746. 

(Signed) ALBEMARLE. 
By His Majesty's Command. 

(Signed) J. ROPER. 

Copy of the Paper Signed by the Dutch Officers. 

In Compliance with The Right Hon^ie The Earl of Albemarle's 
orders, we whose names are underwritten, Officers in the Service of their 
High Mightinesses The States Generall of the United Provinces, do 
give our Words and honours that we will strictly observe every part of 
the said orders. 

Colyear's. Majoribank's. 

Sign'd — Lockhart, Capt — Turnbull, Cap^ 

— Dundas, Capt — Johnstone, Cap*^ 

— M^Kenzie, Ensign. — Gordon, Cap^ 
Stuart's. — Stenhouse, Ensign 

Sign'd — Chalmers, Cap*: — Dundas, Ens. 

— McKay, Lieu^ — Rose, Ens. 

— McLeod, Lieut — Butler, Ens. 

— Gordon, Ens. 

— Spalden, Ens. 

Endorsed : — Lord Albemarle's Orders to the Recruiting Officers in 
the Service of the States Gen^^ and the Copy of a Paper signed by those 
Officers in Consequence of this order — in the E. of Albemarle's of Nov. 
25, 1746. 



3^4 TttE ALBfeMARLE PAPER^. 

{Enclosure II.) 
Declaration of John Martin. 

John Martin declares that Miss Hepburn and his Lady's brother, 
M^ Johnstone, upon Friday night ^ at six went out of the Castle. Miss 
Hepburn had been a quarter of an hour there, her servant lighted them 
home ; when they went out he was sent down to Lady Ellibanks to 
enquire after Miss Murray who was sick. 

That Lady Ogilvie's maid was in the Castle when he was sent 
upon this message, but at seven, when he returned, she was gone, and 
he has not seen her since. Miss Johnston was in Lady Ogilvie's room 
when he returned, but did not allow him to go into it ; she told him he 
was to dress no supper, and at eight ordered him to his Quarters. 

In the morning Miss Johnston ordered him to take the Tea Kettle 
into Lady Ogilvie's Room and told him her sister was not well ; that 
he did not see or hear her in the room that day, and when he was in 
the room the Bed Curtains were closed. 

That Miss Johnston told him, he was to acquaint those who asked 
for his Lady that she was not well ; at eleven Miss went out of the 
Castle, after she went he did not hear any body in the room, and all 
that day heard no voices in it ; at one o'Clock a little Girl came and 
told him she was sent by the Chambermaid to enquire if there was any 
thing for her to do, and then went off. This servant has been a week 
in Town, is a stranger in it, and came last from Sir Alexander 
McDonalds. 

At Ten o'Clock on Friday night, when the Turnkey went to lock 
up the Prisoners, Miss Johnston told him that nobody was with her 
sister, and that he might lock her up when he pleased ; he did not go 
into the room, nor see her ; the Turnkey told the orderly Serjeant all 
was well, upon which the Serjeant locked the Door. 

At the relieving of the Guard Ensign Robertson and Lieu* Hewston 
went to visit the Prisoners ; upon their coming to Lady Ogilvie's, Miss 
Johnston met them at the door, and told them her sister was not well 
and in Bed, upon which they retired without going into the room. 

Endorsed : — In the E. of Albemarle's 
of Nov. 25, 1746. 

^ November 21, 1746. 



tHE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 325 

CLXXXI. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Nov. 28*^ 1746. 

My Lord, 

I was honoured with your Grace's Letter of the 22"^ Instant 
early on Wednesday morning by Express, with the enclosed Paper con- 
taining the Regulations which His Majesty has directed to be observed 
in the enlisting Men in Scotland for recruiting the Scots Regiments in 
the Dutch Service, which I shall take care to have punctually obeyed, 
and have recalled the directions I had given, and cancelled the Paper 
those Gentlemen had signed, both which I sent to your Grace on the 
26^h Instant. I have likewise put a stop to their Recruiting till such 
time as they shall be acquainted that the States have complied with 
His Majesty's intentions, and they shall receive orders to recruit under 
those Limitations. 

I gave immediate notice to the Lord Advocate of Scotland that the 
Bill for the further suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act till the 20th 
day of February next had passed both Houses and had received His 
Majesty's Royal Assent, in consequence of which his Lordship has sent 
circular Letters to the Deputy Sheriffs of the Several Counties to acquaint 
them with it, and has transmitted to them proper instructions how they 
are to act thereupon. 

I communicated the latter part of your Grace's Letter to the Lord 
Justice Clerk, wherein you desire me to make your excuses to his 
Lordship for not answering his Letter relating to the Sale of Glengary's 
Estate, and the taking possession of that of the Camerons ; he begs 
your Grace will accept of his compliments, is extremely thankful for 
your kind remembrance of him, and has desired me to acknowledge the 
receipt of two reprieves which came by the same Express which brought 
me your Grace's Letter. 

I yesterday had an account that Lord Sempill died on Tuesday 
last ^ at Aberdeen, after an illness of near Six weeks. Your Grace will 
be pleased to lay this before His Majesty. 

1 S. P, Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35. No. 33. ^ November 25. 



3i6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS, 

I enclose two Letters from Major Kennedy,^ which your Grace will 
forward if you think proper. 

I am with the greatest respect 
My Lord, 
Your Grace's most humble and most obedient Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. Dec^ 2^^ (by Express). 



CLXxxn. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Decern^ 6* 1746. 

My Lord, 

Since I had the honour of writing to your Grace, nothing 
new has happened ; by all our Letters from the North things remain 
pretty much in the same situation, except that the Rebels in the Hills 
seem somewhat dissatisfied at the sparingness with which the money 
left with Mcpherson of Clunie is distributed amongst them. I have 
made some attempts to catch him, but hitherto unsuccessful. I have 
greater hopes of Cameron of Tor Castle, his principal agent in the dis- 
tribution of this Cash, after whom I am just now in a close search. I 
am told they expect Doctor Cameron, brother to Lochiel, from France, 
with news from the Pretender's Son, and are in great spirits upon 
it, as they flatter themselves he will bring them good tidings. 

Sir Alexander McDonald died suddenly within these few days at 
Bernera ; ^ as he has left some children very young, I hope he may have 
directed proper people to take care of their education. 

If His Royal Highness is gone, I hope he has had a good voyage, 
and that every thing will be settled abroad to his entire satisfaction. 

I again enclose to your Grace, by Lord Justice Clerk's particular 

1 They are not in the Bundle. ^S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35. No 37. 

3 " Deaths. — Nov. 28. At Bernera, in Glenelg, of three days' illness, Sir Alexander 
Macdonald of j Slate ; leaving issue two sons and a daughter." — Scots Magazine, vo\.vm., 
P- 550. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 327 

desire, M^ Campbell of Airds scheme for civilizing Lochiel's country, 
not knowing but your Grace might have mislaid it. 

We have lately taken at Fort William one Cameron of Errachal, 
a Captain of Grenadiers in Lochiel's Regiment ; he is a man very 
remarkable for his size, being six feet seven inches high, and equally so 
for being very active in the Rebellion. 

I am with the greatest Respect 
My Lord, 
Your Grace's most Obedient humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 
Endorsed: — Rd. 12. 

(Enclosure.) 
A Scheme for Civilizing Lochiel's Country. 

To Distress the Clan Cameron and oblige them to a compliance 
with the present Laws against carrying of Arms, and wearing of High- 
land Clothes, a Military Force will be necessary. 

For this purpose, and to apprehend such Rebel Gentlemen as are 
yet lurking in Lochiel's Country, and preventing their making de- 
predations on their neighbours who are Loyal Subjects, it is judged 430 
men will be necessary, to be stationed as follows. 
100 At Strontian — Accommodation for 200. 
70 Head of Lochiel — but indifferent accommodation, distant from 

Strontian g miles. 
100 Head of Locharkaig — Requires a strong party, as bordering on 
Knoydart and the McDonald's Country. Bad accommodation. 
Distant from the head of Lochiel 6 miles. 
50 Lochiel's House at Auchnacarry. Distant from the head of Loch- 
arkaig 12 miles. 
50 High Bridge — Indifferent accommodation. Distant from Auchna- 

cary 4 miles. 
60 Kenlock : beg & Achatrichadan in Glencoe. Tolerable accommo- 
dation. Distant from High Bridge 12 miles. 

430 

" '" Edinburgh 3''d Octo^ 1746. 



328 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

The above scheme given in by Donald Campbell of Airds to the 
Right HonWe the Earl of Albemarle and the Right Honble the Lord 
Justice Clerk. 

(Sign'd) DONALD CAMPBELL. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's Letter 
of Dec^ 6, 1746. 



CLXXXIII. 
The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Decern^ 13th 1746. 

My Lord, 

I send your Grace enclosed an abstract of the state of the 
rebel prisoners that are in custody in the country of Argyll and Castle 
of Dumbarton. 

The two men^ I sent into the Highlands are just now returned 
from their expedition. I shall order them to draw up a faithfull 
narrative of what they have learn'd and of all their proceedings^ 
which shall be (as soon as iinish'd) transmitted to your Grace by 
express. 

I beg your Grace will lay me at His Majesty's feet, and thank him 
for the great honour he has done me in permitting me to serve under 
His Royal Highness the Duke the next Campaign in the Netherlands, 
where I hope I shall behave in such a manner as will merit the con- 
tinuation of his great goodness to me. 

I am with the greatest respect 

My Lord 

Your Grace's most obedient humble servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 19th. 

^ S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35. No. 42. 

"^ Patrick Campbell and his companion Stuart, who had already furnished information. 

sc/. No. CLXXXIV. (Enclosure), mjra. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 329 

CLXXXIV. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Dec 15th 1746. 

My Lord, 

Chandler the Messenger brought me last night your Grace's 
letter of the g^h with the several papers enclosed, relating to the recruit- 
ing in this country of the Scots officers in the Dutch Service, which I 
shall acquaint them with and let them know His Majesty's farther 
indulgence in allowing that a certificate from the magistrate or the 
minister of the parish in which the recruit is enlisted will be judged 
sufficient, and that they may have leave to embark the recruits they 
shall make at Inverness, Aberdeen or Leith, tho' I assure your Grace 
they will all chuse the last port, as it was their former practice, and 
that they can have no convoy to Holland but from thence ; but this 
may be unknown to Monsieur Boetzeldor or others who have been 
strenuous in this point. 

When I sent the memoriall to your Grace, transmitted to me by 
Lord Fortrose and other gentlemen of Rosshire,^ I did it in compliance 
to his request, not expecting I should receive his Majesty's commands 
thereupon ; therefore I beg your Grace would represent to His Majesty, 
that it is impossible to quarter any of his troops at this time of year 
north of the river Ness, and that the insults and depredations his Lord- 
ship and those gentlemen complain of consist in the loss of some cows 
stolen by their neighbours, a practise too common in this country ; in 
my opinion Lord Fortrose's intention was to have two companies of his 
own clan raised for the supposed defence of that country, and put the 
pay of both in his pocket ; as that lord, S"" Harry Monro, and some more 
gentlemen of that part of the country are now in London, I think it 
would be proper your Grace should give yourself the trouble to talk to 
them and say something civil on the occasion, as I shall to Lord Ross 
and those that remain in this country, which may give them some 
satisfaction, tho' few are pleased with anything but money ; your Grace 
may depend upon what I write now to be truth, that His Majesty has 
not one Highlander in the whole kingdom attached to him but those 

1 S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35. No. 42. 
^ Supra, No. CLXXVHL (Enclosure v.). 
TT 



330 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

that are vassals to the Lords Sutherland, Reay, and Ross, and S' 
Harry Munro's, for the Argyleshire men are not properly Highlanders. 
I have this day sent to the Secretary at War the proceedings of a 
general court martial held in this town upon the officers accused of 
neglect of duty at the time Lady Ogilvie made her escape, to be laid 
before His Majesty for his approbation. I hope the Lord Justice Clerk 
and Lord Advocate will do their duty in discovering and detecting those 
under their jurisdiction that have aided and abetted her Ladyship in 
getting off. 

I must beg the favour of your Grace to speak ito the Duke of 
Gordon as soon as possible to send orders to his stewards about Fort 
William to be subservient to Colonel Duroure, and to assist him in 
anything that will be for His Majesty's service, for this may be of great 
consequence to us. 

In my last letter to your Grace I mentioned that the two persons 
I had sent into the hills were returned, and that I should send you their 
narrative as soon as it was digested, which I now enclose to your Grace, 
and shall continue to procure such intelligence as may be relied on. 

Lord Justice Clerk and Lord Advocate have communicated to me 
your Grace's dispatches, and all the assistance I can give them is 
allways devoted to them, when it is in obedience to your Grace's 
commands. I have desired the first to make the necessary enquiry 
into the affair of M^s McDougall, mentioned in the enclosed narrative. 
The great successes of the King of Sardinia in Provence and his 
passing the Var with so much ease must be an infinite satisfaction to 
those who wish the pride of France was humbled. 

I beg the favour of your Grace to lay me at his Majesty's feet, and 
to assure his Majesty that I shall make it my study to endeavour to 
serve him with zeal and attention the longest day of my life, but cannot 
help wishing that your Grace would intercede in my favour, that some 
person might be named soon to relieve me, for no English man can wish 
to be in Scotland above a twelve month together. 

I am with the greatest respect 
My Lord 
Your Grace's most obedient humble servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, 
, Endorsed: — Rd. 18*^ (by Express). 



TttE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 331 

(Enclosure.) 

Intelligence. 

Report made by the two persons sent into the Highlands by the Earl of 
A Ibemarle of the present dispositions of the people of the west Highlands of 
Scotland, containing what information could be got, how the money brought 
last to Scotland by the Pretender's son was disposed of, and , likewise what 
arms and ammunition are in these parts. 

1746. Oct. i6*^h. Employed from the 16*^ to the 22"^ October in 
going over the Duke of Argyle's country from Inverary towards the 
Coast of Mull down the length of Tobermorie, which is the only 
harbour for shipping on all that coast, and found no ships or boats 
except such as are employed upon common Ferrys. 

Found that the MacLeans, inhabitants of that country, are in 
great expectations of a landing from France in the Spring, which they 
seem'd very fond of and would willingly join. 

The People of that country have a great plenty of guns and swords, 
but could hear of no quantitys hid ; they have great plenty of French 
gold, 

Oct. 23. Ferry'd over to Morven from Tobermorie and survey'd 
all that coast, found the people all employ'd in repairing their houses, 
which had been burnt by the men of war station'd on that coast. 
They have great plenty of cattle, as none were taken from them save 
a few by the men of war, which they greatly complain'd of. The people 
of that country are all full of the expectation of a landing from France 
in the Spring, by which they expect redress for the loss sustained by 
the Government. 

They have as yet great plenty of arms over that country of Morven, 
as also French gold and Spanish money. 

Towns burnt upon that coast by the men of war and some of the 
Argyle Shire Militia stationed at Mingerie Castle in Ardnamurchan. 

I. Aulashdale. 5. Killoundan. 
Auchahnan. Laggan. 

Drimeoragig. Drimnin. 

Ferruish. Sallachan. 



33^ THE ALBEAMRLE PAPERS: 

Funnary. Kiell. 

lo. Savery. Knoch. 

Auchnaha. 15. Artornish. 

Auchabeck. 

The people who inhabited the above towns are of the Clan Cameron, 
except a few McLeans, and were all in the rebellion ; they have great 
plenty of money, but allmost no firing or meall, a great many of them 
have not as yet surrendered. 

Oct. 27. Went from Morven to Moydart, Sounart and Strontian, 
where few or none of the houses are burnt, except Kinlochmoydart's, and 
by their surrendring to General Campbell none of their Cattle were 
taken from them, except from some particular persons. Moydart is 
inhabited mostly by McDonalds, Sounart by Camerons and McDonalds, 
and Strontian by both clans ; they are all papists. 

Notwithstanding a great many of them have surrendered, they are 
all in expectation of a landing from France in the Spring, which they 
seem very fond of and willing to join. 

By the best information they had from one Alexander Cameron, a 
merchant at Lisdale, three miles from Strontian on the Loch side, one 
of their officers who received money from the ships for the use of the 
rebels and knows how a great deal of it was disposed, a great many of 
them are still in pay. 

They are in great want of meal and fireing, but plenty of rum and 
brandy, and have still a great deal of fire arms. 

There are great thefts committed all over Moydart, Morven and 
Sounart, and about Strontian, and a great many of them who have not 
as yet surrender'd in expectation of the landing. 

Oct. 30th. Cross'd over from Strontian to Appin by Kingarloch, 
where a great many of the inhabitants of that country have surrender'd 
and given up their arms to the commanding officer at the Island 
Stalker ; the people of Ardsheil's Grounds and Balahelish were repairing 
their houses burnt by Captain Scott from Fort William. 

There are plenty of cattle in this country, as none were taken from 
the tennants save a few by Capts. Miller & Scott. Ardshiels were all 
carried off by General Campbell, as were also Balahelishes and several 
other gentlemen's that were in the rebellion. 

There was a great many of the inhabitants of this place killed at 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. ^33 

Culloden, which makes meal more plenty in that country than many 
others, it being all labour'd in the beginning of the year and equally 
good for grain as grazing ; found such of them as were at home in the 
same expectations of landing and ready to join it. 

Stuart of Ardshiell, Stuart of Innernahyle Jun^, and Stuart of 
Fasnacloich Jun^, and Stuart of Ballahelish Elder are still in the bounds 
of the country. 

There are six towns burnt in Appin viz^ 

Laroch. Lettermore. Glendourar. 

Ballahelish. Auchindarroch. Keill. 

The town of Ardscheill not burnt, but the Mansion house taken 
down and all the timber freestone and slate and furniture and all the 
planting cut down and carried to Fort William by order of Captain 
Scott and disposed of by him, which by information amounted to above 
£■400 Stir. 

Nov ist. Went from Appin to Glenco and found that the people 
of that Glen had given up their arms to General Campbell, by which 
they saved all their houses and cattle and seem'd to be weary of 
rebellion. 

Went from Glenco to Cameron of Kinlochleven's, who was a 
captain in the rebel service, and found he is still in the hills with a good 
many of his men. Such of them as were at home were in the same 
expectation of a landing and as willing to join as the rest. 

Went from Kinlochlevin to Lochabar by Keppoch McDonald's 
lands, which are all burnt. A good many of the people have surren- 
dered to the Duke of Cumberland, and went from Keppoch's lands down 
to Gleneves which is all burnt. 

Such of the people as were convers'd with seem'd willing to join 
the expected landing ; they have plenty of money and arms as yet, not- 
withstanding of their surrendering. 

By all information Keppoch is still in life and in the country.^ 

Nov. 5'h Cross'd over from Fort William and went round all 
Lochiell, which is burnt, except the town of Fassifern which is possess'd 
by John Cameron, Lochiel's brother. 

1 This statement is curious ; for Keppoch was killed at Culloden. In the Scots 
Magazine (vol. viii., p. 445) he is mentioned among those who went on board the French 
ships which carried the Prince from Scotland. 



3J4 THE ALBEMARLE PAPEkS. 

Went from that to Locharkeg and found the same burnt also, such 
of the people of that country as were not killed at Culloden live in the 
hills in small hutts, and a great many made their escape into Knoydart 
as they could not stay in their own country, it being upon a pass from 
Fort William, and much afraid of the Red Coats. 

Found such of the people as were at home in Locharkeg full of the 
spirritts of rebellion. 

Went from Locharkeg to Aresaig and Knoydart and found the 
people of these countries of the same disposition of rebellion, as they 
had great assurances of a landing from France in the spring, and that 
they had the same from the Pretender when going off, he being mostly 
in these parts before he got an opportunity. 

They have great plenty of arms, money and spiritts and cattle of all 
kinds, and are daily employed in stealing from all other countrys they 
can have access to. 

These countrys are all McDonalds and their followings, belonging 
to Clan Ronald and Barisdale, mostly papists and great thieves. 

There are three priests arriong them, viz. Mess's M^assec, McLachlan, 
and Herrison, Irish, who spirit up the people and persuade them that 
there will be a landing against spring and that they will have all redress 
for their losses. 

There are no houses burnt in these countries except Clan Ronalds, 
Scottos's, old and young Barrisdale's. 

The following officers are at home, give still pay to their men and 
spirit them up, viz* 

McDonald of Glenelladale. 

Young Clanronald. 

Allan McDonald, brother to Keppoch, a Capt. 

McDonald of Morinish, Lieu^ Col. to Clanronald. 

John & Allan McDonald, sons to Scottos, both Captains. 

Angus McDonald, brother to Lochgerrie, a Major. 

Lundy McDonald, a Captain. 

Shian McDonald Do. 

Ocherach McDonald Do. 

McDonald of Croling Do. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 335 

Of LochieVs Regiment. 

Cameron of Torcastle, Lieut. Colonell. 

Since taken by a Party \ 

noTa^priL^ei^lThal -Cameron of Arroch, a Captain. 

garrison. I 

Cameron of Stron, Do. 

Cameron of Kinlochleven, Do. 

Angus Cameron, Brother to Gleneves, Do. 

Alexr McLachlan, Aid de Camp to the Young 
Pretender and brother to the Governor of 
Fort WilHam's Son-in-Law. 

Gone abroad with the Young Pretender. 

Cameron of Lochiel younger, Colonell. 

Doct. Cameron, brother to Do., Major. 

Cameron of Murlagan, Captain. 

Allan Cameron, Do. 

Donald Cameron, Captain. 

Alex^r Cameron, Do. 

McDonnald of Lochgarrie, Colonel. 

Barisdale Younger and his son. Captains. 

McDonald, son to Scottos, Do. 

John Roy Stuart, Colonell. 



Nov. 12th. Cross'd from Knoydart by Gleneleg to the Isle of Skye, 
where we had an opportunity of being in Company with a great many 
of the officers of the disbanded Independ^ Companies, by whom we found 
that if the Government would not take notice of them, that they would 
embrace the first opportunity of rebelling, and that they depended much 
upon Sir Alexander McDonald's success at London, with respect to their 
getting commissions. They were much surprised at their being disbanded 
but did not seem to reflect upon any publick person in particular on that 
acco*. 



336 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Captains of the above Companies. 

James McDonald of Aird. 

John McDonald of Kirkabus. 

Donald McDonald of Castletown, who had his Company from 

McLeod. 
Norman McLeod of Waterstone. 
Norman McLeod of Bernera, Junr. 
John McLeod of Talisker. 



Nov. 19th. Cross'd from the Isle of Skye to Glenelg and staid 
there untill the 25^1^ on acco* of the bad weather. Went to Kentail in 
my Lord Seaforth's grounds, thinking to get into my Lord Lovatt's 
country, but could not cross the hills, the snow being so great : and 
then came in by Glenshiell and from that to Glenmorison, which is all 
burnt, consisting of twenty villages inhabited by Grants full of the spirit 
of rebellion, and much incens'd against Major Lockhart, who burnt 
their houses and carried off their cattle. 

They seem'd to have no arms and in a starving condition for want 
of meal and firing. 

Went from Glenmorrison to Glengarrie, where there is neither 
houses nor people, only some few huts inhabited by women only in a 
starving condition. 



Nov. 30th Arrived at Fort Augustus and came from that over 
Corryerig and in by the Braes of Badenoch and down by Clunie 
McPherson's, which is burnt, and none in that country save Garvimore 
and a parcel of rebellious rogues and thieves of the clan McPherson, 
Kennydys and McKendricks. 

Lochgarrie has the like inhabitants. 

From Lochgarrie came down by the Braes of Athol to Perth and 
from that to Edinburgh. 

Such of the inhabitants of the Braes of Athol as we convers'd with 
seem'd to be weary of rebellion, and complained much that they were 
forced out by Lord George Murray, and was informed that such of 
them as live in the High places of Athol went along with the people of 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 337 

the Braes of Mar in the habit of the Argyleshire Militia, with a red 
cross upon their bonnets, and robbed and plunder'd wherever they 
suspected money or goods. 

There are a great many of the gentlemen of the Braes of Athol and 
Strath Tay still lurking about the country, such as Robertson of Stro- 
wan, Robertson of Fascallie, Steuart of Kynachan, Colonels Stuart of 
Balechan, a Lieut. Colonel, and several others. 

The Highlands in general has suffer'd much where we travelled 
with regard to the loss of men. 

And particularly the Camerons have lost upwards of 460, and never 
had above 800 in the field. The Steuarts lost about 150, and did not 
exceed 260 from the beginning of the rebellion. 

The McDonalds and McPhersons and their followers are still 
numerous and mostly thieves. 

Lord Loudoun and the Lord President are generally well spoke of 
by the people in the above countries for their behaviour during the 
rebellion. 

The person who is suspected of having killed Culcairn is one 
Dougal McOloney,^ the boy's father that was shot by the party which 
Culcairn commanded when at Locharkeg ; he is now in custody at 
Inverness, but no proof could be got against him, after making the 
strictest enquiry ; and understand that Cameron of Fassefairn, Lochiel's 
brother, is the only person can bring that affair to light. 



Information which can be depended upon and the truth of it made 
appear, if required. 

There came of money to Scotland to the young Pretender ^^40,000 
Stir ^ which was dispos'd of as follows viz. 

£20,000 left with Clunie McPherson in concert with Cameron of 
Clunes, Cameron of Glenpean and Cameron of Fassifairn, not to be 
disposed of until further orders from the Pretender. 

There was ;£'85o ster. divided amongst the following persons, to be 
distributed amongst the private men that had not surrendered, vizt. 

JC/. No. CLXXXVIL (Enclosure ii.), infra. 
"-Cf, No, CLXXXVIIL (Enclqsure iii.), supm. 
UU 



338 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

To Clunie McPherson . . 

To Angus Cameron, brother to Glenives 

To Angus McDonald, brother to Glengarrie 

To Lady Keppoch .... 

To the Steuarts of Appin 

To McGregor of Glengyle 



;^I00 

300 

150 
100 
100 
100 

850^ 



There was Hkewise money left for payment of the officers that have 
not surrender'd, but the quantity not yet known. 

There was also ;£"4ooo brought to the South countrey, of which 
sum Mrs McDougall, wife of Mr McDougall wine merchant in Edinburgh, 
and sister to John Murray of Broughton, brought from Lady Glenlyon 
or Culdares £2yoo after Mr Murray was apprehended, and which he 
had left with either of the said two ladies.^ 

The said Mrs McDougall received from Mr Haliburton, a French 
officer, ^^1300 of the Pretender's money, of which there was part given 
by her to the McGregors for subsistence. Secretary Murray's mother 
was privy to all these transactions. 

This is beside the 3^20,000 .... 2700 
Left in Clunie McPherson's hands . . 1300 



3^4000 



Upon the Pretender's leaving Scotland, a long Council of War was 
held upon his going abroad, when he was for carrying with him all the 
money, which the Clans would not agree to ; then it was agreed that it 
should be disposed of as above, untill such time as the Clans should 
understand from the Pretender what assistance he was to expect from 
the French King; and in case things did not answer his expectation, 
he was to send over a vessell some time in the month of February 1747 
with directions how the ;£"2o,ooo was to be divided or disposed of, as also 

^ The sums specified in this list exactly correspond with the directions given by the 
Prince to Cluny. 

' Murray of Broughton appropriated 5,000 louis of the treasure for expenses. Of that 
sum nearly ;;f4,ooo was buried in the garden of Mrs. Menzies of Culdairs. Cf. Lang, Com- 
panions of Pickle, p. 132. 



THE ALBfeMARLE PAPERS. 



339 



to bring over any officers that were left behind and any private gentle- 
men that had not surrender'd or would not be taken before that time. 

Stewart Charles sold of stampt paper, which was taken out of the 
Custom house of Edinburgh or Leith, to the value of £1^0 ster. to one Mr 
Moubray, King's Wright at Edinburgh, for which he had Moubray's bill. 

The said Charles received £"200 of the Pretender's money that 
came last over and still acts in concert with the rebels. 

Mr McLachlan the Govournour of Fort William's Son in law did, 
and still continues to, subsist all the country of Lochabar with rum and 
brandy. He lately disloaded a vessell and has another on the way with 
the same goods. 

Mr McVicar, the Collector of the Customs at Fort William, did 
see bills for the above goods come to Fort William to be accepted of 
by McLachlan. 

The said McLachlan, during the whole rebellion, traded in exchange 
of French and Spanish gold with the rebels and buying of cattle at ten 
or eleven shillings ^ piece in case they should be taken from them by 
the Military, by which he made upwards of ;£'5oo ster. ; all this time he 
was under the protection of the Fort and not suspected of underhand 
dealing? with the rebels. 

Sir Alexander McDonald and the Laird of McLeod are the only 
persons that can make clear Lord Lovatt's accession to the rebellion, 
as they had a correspondence with him ^ when the Pretender landed, in 
order to manage affairs so as that they might betray the Government 
by receiving arms from General Cope when at Inverness for their men, 
in order to join the Pretender. Upon which design McLeod went to 
Inverness, but Cope sailed from thence before he came up. 

We could not find out by Peter Eraser, Lovatt's Postillion, that 
Lovatt had forced out his son or any of that Clan. 

We found that the rebels in Lochaber expect to be supply'd with 
meal and other provisions from Ireland, and that there is several boats 
come into that country on pretence of buying wood, and bring with 
them meal, butter, cheese, salt, spiritts and tobacco, and while they 
are supported with such, they will always have the spiritt of rebellion, 
especially when they have such expectations. 

It is past the power of man to bring them into working in factorys 

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THE ALBEMARLE PApERS. 



while they are in hopes of a landing and can have anything to steal, 
which is the only trade they incline to at present. 

After making due enquiry, there does not appear to be cannon or 
ammunition hid in any of these countries, but they have plenty of small 
arms, for what they deliver'd up was such as was good for nothing. 

There are a great many boats upon Lochneaves, which is betwixt 
Aresaig and Moydart, as also upon Lochouran betwixt Glenelg and 
Knoydart, which are of great use to the thieves of these countries in 
ferrying over stolen cattle. 

When Lord George Sackville was marching through Lochaber 
(the time the Pretender was lurking in that country) the Pretender with 
other four came to the rear of the baggage and stole and carried off 
Lord George's whole field equipage, and during the time of his lurking 
about the Mountains and hutts made use of Lord George's bed and 
carried it afterwards with him to France.^ 

Number of miles travelled by the two persons who brought this 



information. 












Scots Miles. 




From Edinbr to Inverary . 60 


Brought over 


. 282 


To Kerrera 


24 


To Ballymenoch 


. 12 


To Douart Castle 




4 


To Seonsar 


. 12 


To Tobermorie . 




20 


To Brodfoord 


. 12 


To Morven 






3 


To Glenelg 


. 10 


To Knock . 






12 


To Glensheil 


• 9 


To Strontian 






16 


To Glenmorison 


. 20 


To Kingarloch . 






6 


To Glengarrie . 


. 12 


To Appin . 






4 


To Fort Augustus 


• 14 


To Glenco . 






15 


From Fort Aug. to Garvimore 16 


To Kinlochlevin 




8 


To Dalwhinie 


. 14 


To Fort William 




. 16 


To Dalspeitle 


. 10 


To Lochielhead . 




12 


To Dunkeld 


. 30 


To Locharkeg 






12 


To Kinghorn 


. 30 


To Knoydart 






15 






To Lochourn 






6 




483 


To Glenelg 






8 






To Lochendal 






10 


No. — The Crossing of several ferries 


To Sligachan 






10 


and travelling back & forward 


To Dunvegan 






12 


the countries are 


not here set 


To Unich . 






9 


down. 





1 The statement can hardly be accepted, 



tH£ ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 34t 

CLXXXV. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Decern'' i6th 1746. 
My Lord, 

Hugh Frazer, Lord Lovatt's Secretary, has been (since a 
Prisoner) always in the hands of the Military ; when His Royal High- 
ness left Fort Augustus he was delivered to my care ; from that place 
I sent him by Water to Inverness in custody of Major Salt, Major of 
Brigade, where he continued with General Blakeney till Your Grace 
honoured me with His Majesty's Commands to bring him to Edinburgh, 
which was done on board the Triton, Captain How, in custody of 
Major Sandford, Major of Brigade ; he has been since kept a close 
Prisoner in the Castle here, under the care of the commanding Officer in 
that place ; as I understand it is His Majesty's intentions that he should 
be sent to London, I shall deliver him to Major Sandford, who brought 
him from Inverness, and shall give him money sufficient for his main- 
tainance on the road. I think this Gentleman a much properer Person 
to entrust him with than the Messenger Your Grace has sent. 

I enclose Your Grace the Cases of three other Prisoners who were 
brought from Inverness with Lord Lovatt's Secretary, (viz) Major 
Kennedy, Captain O'Neill, and Young Clanronald, who are now close 
Prisoners in the Castle. I should be glad Your Grace would lay this 
before His Majesty, and let me know His Commands relating to them. 
I beg Your Grace will send or deliver the enclosed Letter to His 
Royal Highness the Duke. 

I am with the greatest respect 

My Lord 

Your Grace's most humble and obedient Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 
Endorsed : — Rd. 22^. 

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342 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

{Enclosure I.) 

Captain O'Neil's Statement. 

My Lord, 

I'ay L'honneur de vous representer, que je suis nee Rome 
et que je servis dans L'armee espagnole toute ma vie jusque I'anne 
1744, que je ete fait Cap"^ dans le regt de Lally au service de France. 
I'ay ete envoye dans ce pais cy au mois de mars dernier avec des 
depeches de la Cour par M"^ Le Due de Richelieu L^ General qui Com- 
mandoit alors une armee en Flandree ; mon pere a ete nee en espagne 
et tue Brigadier au meme service a la Bataille de Campo Santo. Fay 
L'honneur d'etre avec un profond respect, 

My Lord 
Votre tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteur 

FELIX O'NEILLE. 
au chateau D'Edinbourgh 
ce 15^ X^re 1746. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's of Dec^ 16, 1746. 

{Enclosure II.) 

Major Kennedy's Statement. 

My Lord, 

J 'ay L'honneur de vous representer que je suis entre au 
Service de France en 1729. J'ay etois [sic'\ alors dans ma tendre 
leunesse. I'ay ete naturalise fran9ois en 1733 a 1734 ; je suis venu en 
ecosse L'hyver dernier par ordre du Roy avec Mons^ Stapleton Brigadier 
pour servir sous ses ordres, et je me suis rendu prisonier au fort Guil- 
liaume au comencem^ du mois de Juin dernier. lay L'honneur detre 
avec un profond respect, 

My Lord 

Votre tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteur 

TH. KENNEDY, 
au Chateau D'Edinburgh 

ce 156 Xbre 1746. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's of Dec 16, 1764. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 343 

(Enclosure III.) 

Donald Macdonald's Statement. 

My Lord, 

I have the honour to represent to your Lordship, that I 
went to France in year 1742 and served as Cadet in Rooth's Regm* till 
I got a Company in Drummond's Regm* the year 44, and came along 
with it to Scotland in Nov"^ 45, and being wounded before Sterling, I 
returned to my fathers country, where I remained till hearing that all 
my Regm* surrender'd themselves prisoners of War at Inverness, after 
the Battle of Culloden, I was desirous of doing the same, and I sur- 
rendered myself to Cap* John Mack Donald as soon as he came to the 
Country I was in, in July last. 

I have the honour to remain with profound respect 

My Lord 

Your Lordship's most humble and most obedient Servant 

DONALD MACK DONALD. 
Castle of Edinburgh 

Deer 15th 1746. 
Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's of Dec"" 16, 1746. 



CLXXXVI. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Earl of Sutherland.^ 

Edinburgh, Dec i8'h 1746. 
My Lord, 

I had the honour of your Lordship's of the 13th Instant, and 
am to inform you that as I have called in all the Arms that were given 
by the Government to the severall Voluntiers and Companies of Militia 
raised in the Kingdom at the breaking out of the Rebellion, as this 
order was general and no particular exceptions in it, in consequence of 
it your People were sent to amongst the rest, to bring in theirs; if your 
Lordship by an application to the Duke of Newcastle can procure a 

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344 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Warrant to exempt you from a thing which every Nobleman and 
Gentleman in Scotland have very readily complied with I shall cheer- 
fully obey it, and I am in the mean time 

My Lord, 
Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
Earl of Sutherland. 



CLXXXVII. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Dec' 20th 1746. 
My Lord, 

As Chandler the Messenger's Warrant directed him to carry 
up to London Hugh Frazer, Lord Lovatt's Secretary, and as the Major 
in the Castle had orders to deliver up this Prisoner to him, I did not 
think it proper to interfere, but referred him to Lord Justice Clerk to 
receive such orders for the safe conveyance of his Prisoner as His 
Lordship should think proper to give. I at first proposed (as I men- 
tioned to your Grace in my last) to have sent an Officer with him ; he 
set out yesterday morning without my knowing any thing of the matter, 
and I sincerely wish he may bring his Prisoner safe to London, about 
which I own I have some doubts. 

Nothing material has happened since I did myself the honour to 
write to your Grace. I have received a Letter (of which I enclose a copy) 
from a Gentleman in the Highlands of known Character and particular 
for his affection to His Majesty ; there is nothing of great consequence 
in it, but thought it proper to transmit it to your Grace, as it serves to 
corroborate our former Intelligence. 

You have likewise enclosed the case of Captain O'Byrne ; if I 
might presume to offer my sentiments, I should think that Gentleman, 
Major Kennedy and Captain O'Neille might be sent to Carlisle upon 
their Parole. I should be glad to receive His Majesty's Commands with 
i-egard to those Prisoners, and whether it would not be proper to send 

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THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 345 

to London by the first Man of War that sails from hence, The Master 
of Lovatt, Young Clanronald and McDonald of Kingsborow, the last of 
which your Grace is well informed supported the Pretender's Son whilst 
in the Isle of Skye, and assisted him in his escape from thence. 

I have just now received by Express Your Grace's Dispatch of the 
i6th and shall with the utmost exactness obey His Majesty's commands 
contained therein. 

I am with the greatest respect 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 26. 

{Enclosure I.) 
Statement of Captain O'Brien. 

Je Sousigne declare etre ne a Landau le vingt neuf Septembre 
1694, avoir ete baptiste dans I'Eglise paroissiale de cette ville le premier 
d'octobre de la meme annee ; qu'il y'a pr^s de vingt trois ans que je 
suis Cap"e dans le regiment de milord Clare, et plus de dise ans associe 
a I'ordre royal et militaire de S<^. Loiiis ; que je suis venu en Ecosse par 
les ordres de la Cour de France, et Muni d'un passeport de Sa M. T. C. 

O'BYRNE. 

a Edinbourgh ce 18^^ X^re 1746. 

To Capne Robisson, aid-de-camp to the right honourable L^ Albe- 
marle 

Endorsed : — in the Earl of Albemarle's of Dec^ 20, 1746. 

(Enclosure II.) 

Intelligence. 

Copy of a Letter from the Highlands to Lord Albemarle, dated 
Dec^ 7<A 1746. 

Since I had the honour of writing your Lordship the 27*^ ult., I 
saw my friend over the Water, who lately returned from the head of 

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346 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Locharkeg, where he had been in Search of Cattle Stolen from him, 
which now is a business become too universal in those parts. 

By him I am informed that ;^35,ogo was left with Cluny M^Pher- 
son when the young Pretender went off, to be distributed from time to 
time among the outstanding Rebels of the different Clans — That last 
month Angus Cameron, brother to Gleneves, an active and busie man, 
carried from Clunie £300 for the use of the Clan Cameron, which he 
divided among their Several Chieftans and heads of Tribes. They 
often quarrel among themselves about the division, even the length of 
Daggers drawing — A further remittance is promised once this Month — 
This brother of Gleneves's lived in Rannoch, but has now no settled 
place of residence ; his wife stays in Appin of Don, S"^ Robert Menzies 
country. 

My Intelligencer assures me he never knew the Lochaber Rebels 
in greater hopes, and has the same account from Moydart and Aresaig 
— They are fully convinced that Foreign assistance will be sent them 
before the beginning of March, and he judges the greatest part of them 
would be more ready now to join in any desperate attempt than ever, 
tho' he understands by some of the lower class of Gentlemen that they 
wish for nothing more than to surrender and procure their Peace from 
the Government, could it be obtained. 

I wrote your LP formerly that young Clanronald had been designed 
left behind in Scotland by the Young Pretender. I am now informed 
that Ludovick Cameron of Tor Castle was likewise left for supporting 
and keeping up the spirits of that Clan — These circumstances, with 
that of so large a sum being left in Clunie's hands, and the high spirits 
the Rebels in general are in at present, afford some ground to believe 
that the Young Pretender really had some after game in view when he 
left Scotland, whatever encouragement his schemes may meet with at 
the Court of France. 

By all accounts the Rebels have plenty of Arms and money among 
them ; even those who surrendered and gave up arms appear now 
openly in arms, except when they apprehend some of the King's Forces 
are near them. 

I beg leave to suggest to your LP as my humble opinion, that to 
disarm the Rebel Countries effectually, or apprehend such of their Chiefs 
as are yet sculking near their several homes, will not be easily accom- 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 347 

plished unless Parties of the Military were so stationed in the several 
Countries as an attack could be made in 24 hours after receiving infor- 
mation of their lurking holes, for they seldom continue longer than 
three nights in one place, if so long. 

All of them in this Neighbourhood keep a sharp look out, and more 
so since Cameron of Errachal was taken. 

I doubt not your LP has been informed that one M^Oloney was 
delivered up to my Lord Loudoun as the Murderer of Captain Munro 
of Culcairn, but least you should be misled in this particular, I think 
it my duty to give your Lordship the account I had of it. The 
McQlony delivered as the Murderer is Nicknamed in the Irish Language 
Am-Biatach, That is to say Hospitable; this by name was given him 
in contradiction to his real character, being that of a Churl ; which 
imputation joined to that of his being accounted a Coward, and not 
going to the Rebellion, are the Crimes for which he was given up as 
a Sacrifice, and not as concerned in Culcairn's Murder, of which he 
is allowed by common Fame to be innocent. One Donald Roy M^Olony 
is said to be the Actor of this Murder, and father to the Man who was 
shot by the Command on their march to the head of Locharkeg when 
this wicked deed was committed — I have no account of his haunts. 

Endorsed : — in the Earl of Albemarle's of DeC^ 20, 1746. 



CLXXXVIII. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edenburgh December ye 24^^ 1746. 
My Dear Lord Duke, 

I am infinitely obliged to your Grace for y^ honour of your 
private Lett, of y^ 20th, & for the hopes you give me of H.R.H. succeed- 
ing at y^ Hague, & of the alteration in y^ Spanish Ministry ; they are 
both good news, but too good to happen, for of late Luck has not 
attend'd the right attempts & endeavours of His Majesty's servants. 
The enclosed Letter is a direction to Coll. Braddock to allow Capt. 

1 Addit. MSS. 32709, fol. 377. 



348 tH£ ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Evelyn to sell his commission of Quarter Master, but your Grace must 
finish the execution of Lord Godolphin's desire by speaking to M^ Fox 
when the successour is known. What thinks my Lord Duke of this 
Last insolent & rash scheme of the inhabitants of this Town to celebrate 
ye Pretender Son's birth Day ; ^ can this be indured & will you continue 
to shew mercy when the people have no gratitude in them. Au Nom 
De Dieu retire moy d'icy, & pray Lett me have Leave from the King to 
come away, for if I have the good Luck to serve abroad with the Duke 
I have but very little time Left to myself. I am with the greatest 
respect 

My Lord, 

Your Graces Most obedient humble servant 

ALBEMARLE. 

Three months ago I did myself the honour to write to the Duke of 
Grafton ; pray dos your Grace believe y* Letter miscarryed. I beg my 
humble respects to my Lady Dutchess, 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — ^Private. 



CLXXXIX. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Decem"" 24*1^ 1746. 
My Lord, 

A surprising, audacious and impudent attempt was made 
last Saturday ^ by several People of this Town to celebrate the Birthday 
of the Pretender's Son ; the women distinguished themselves by wearing 
Tartan Gowns" with Shoes and Stockings of the same kind, and White 
Ribbands on their heads and breasts ; dinners were bespoke at Leith with 
an intent to have Balls afterwards, and several Societies were to meet 

1 Cf. Lord Albemarle's letter of the same date, infra, No. CLXXXIX. 
^ S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35. No. 55. ^ December 20. 



tHE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. ^49 

in Town ; a Report of these intended rejoicings was spread about several 
days before, and I spoke of it to Lord Justice Clerk, the Lord Advocate 
and several of the Lords of the Session, to prevent these meetings, but 
none of them could give credit to it, not thinking it possible that such 
a spirit of Rebellion should continue to reign amongst the inhabitants 
of Edinburgh, which encouraged me to go out of Town with the Lord 
President to dine at a house of his four miles off, where I received at 
three o'Clock in the afternoon the enclosed Letter from General Huske, 
with a copy of the warrant intended to be granted by Lord Justice 
Clerk, to know whether it had the Lord President's approbation ; upon 
the receipt of the message, I immediately returned to Town to act in 
conjunction with Lord Justice Clerk in the best manner I was able. 
Guards were posted at the several Avenues of the Town leading from 
Leith, to stop all Coaches and apprehend such women as were cloathed 
in Tartan, whilst Detachm^s attended the Civil Magistrates to the 
disaffected and suspected houses ; but the alarm was given so soon, that 
before we could effect our intended Scheme, the women had undressed 
themselves and both they and the men had dispersed in such a manner 
that none could be taken up ; finding at one o'Clock in the morning that 
every thing was quiet, the Troops were dismissed and sent to their 
respective quarters. 

Mrs M^Dougall, the Wine Merchant's wife, accused in the narrative 
I sent your Grace ^ of having received ^^4000 for the use of the Rebels, 
of which she distributed a part to the McGregors, was yesterday com- 
mitted to the Castle by Warrant from Lord Justice Clerk. 

I am informed by Lord Loudoun that John Simpson, a Soldier of 
his Lordships Regiment, now Prisoner at Tilbury Fort, and who wrote 
the enclosed letter, which may be a means to find him out, can be a 
useful evidence against Lord Lovatt ; if your Grace sends for him to be 
examined by the Attorney General, his Evidence may perhaps be found 
material enough to excuse his Desertion. 

Yesterday at noon I received your Grace's Dispatches by Cleverly 
the Messenger, those to Lord Justice Clerk and the Lord Advocate were 
safely delivered, and I have told both of them, that they may be assured 
of all the assistance I am capable of giving them. 

We are very impatient to receive some foreign news, and the 

1 Supra, No. CLXXXIV. (Enclosure). 



350 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

account of His Royal Highness being returned with success froni 
Holland. I am with the greatest respect 

My Lord, 
Your Grace's most obedient humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 26* (by Cleverly). 

(Enclosure I.) 

Major-General Huske to the Earl of Albemarle. 

Saturday [December 20, 1746] past 2 o'clock. 
My Lord, 

Lord Justice Clerk is now with me and stays in Town. You 
will see the reason by the enclosed. I have ordered the five Companies 
quartered in the Cannon Gate to be under Arms at 4 o'Clock. 

Major Tovey will deliver your Lordship this letter. I have ordered 
him to march with what Dragoons he can get together to the Links of 
Leith. Your Lordship will best judge what is next to be done. I shall 
hope to see you soon or to receive your commands. 

(Sign'd) JOHN HUSKE. 

P.S. — The enclosed draught of a Warrant is what Lord Justice 
Clerk and I proposes ; he desires you would show it to the President, 
and we beg to know if you and he approves of it. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Dec. 24* 1746. 

(Enclosure II.) 

Copy of a Warrant Granted by Lord Justice-Clerk and 
SENT TO Lord Albemarle for the Lord President's 
Approbation. 

Edin' Decemr 20th 1746. 
Whereas it has for some days past been the common Report 
that a number of Jacobites and disaffected persons of both sexes had 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 35 1 

formed a Design to meet in a numerous Company at Leith in order to 
solemnize as this day the Birth day of the Pretender's Son, and that by 
way of distinction the female sex were to be clothed in Tartan, or other 
marks of distinction, and having now certain information that the said 
Company are met at [blank] in Leith, which must be construed 
an open impudent insult upon the Government and tending to promote 
and stir up Rebellion ; These are therefore granting Warrant to all 
Officers of the Law with proper assistants to seize and secure all and 
every Person in the said treasonable and seditious Company till they 
be examined and other ways dealt with according to Law. 

(Sign'd) AND. FLETCHER. 
To all Concerned. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's of Dec"^ 24*^ 1746. 

(Enclosure III.) 

John Simpson to the Earl of Loudoun. 

My Lord, 

May it please your Lordship — That I John Simson, belong- 
ing to Capt Alexa' M^Key's Company in your Lordships Regiment, was 
left sick in the hospital in Inverness when your Lordship marched to 
the North, ^ and was made prisoner along with one Corporal McGregor 
in Capt Sutherland's Company ; while they were striping of the Cor- 
poral I made my escape to the next house, but was made prisoner 
again by another party of the Rebels. I was so badly of the fever and 
ague that Andrew Eraser, baker, came bail for me, which obliged me to 
continue with him as a Servant till the battle of Colloden, and as soon as 
my Capt came to Inverness I went and gave my self up to him and he 
ordered me to the main guard till such time as he made inquiry at my 
Quarters of my innocency, of which the s^ Corporal Jno Stewart, the 
Cap'^ns Servant, and James Lewdat, private in Cap^ Sutherland's 
Company, and a great many other can testify my innocency. Yet with- 
out any examination I was sent aboard the Transports and carried to 
this place, where I still remain prisoner. 

^ The Prince's troops entered Inverness on February 18, 1746. Loudoun withdrew to 
the Black Isle on the same date. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 92. 



352 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

May it therefore please your Lordship to have pity and compassion 
upon me in my distress and doe something for my Relief, and your poor 
petitioner shall ever pray &c. — 

is all from, My L^, Your L^shps 

Most Humble and most Obedient Serv^ to be commanded, 

JOHN SIMPSON. 
Tilbury Fort, Nov^ 26* 1746]. 

To The Right Honble The Earl of Loudon. 

To the care of the Post Master of Inverness. 
Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Dec^ 24, 1746. 

cxc. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, January 9*^ 1747. 

My Lord, 

The Lord Advocate not being able to make up his dispatches 
before now has been the occasion of my detaining Cleverly the Mes- 
senger so long ; it is true his Lordship's Letter is dated half an hour 
after three in the morning, but it was never sent till just now. 

I shall not presume to trouble your Grace any further about 
Captain Hamilton, leaving the Lord Advocate and the Earl of Leven, 
now in London, to inform Your Grace of the whole Proceedings of the 
Court of Session relating to that Prosecution ; the former has taken 
upon himself to acquaint you what has been done, in consequence of 
Your Grace's Letter to him ; '^ if his account should differ in any part 
from the case I sent you, it is owing to M^ Craigie, the late Advocate, 
who drew it up and gave it me. 

I shall not wait to be directed by the opinion of the Attorney and Soli- 
citor General (which however I expect according to your Grace's Promise) 
how to behave in relation to the seizing such Persons who have been 
concerned in the Rebellion, or now acting contrary to Law, since Your 
Grace is pleased to say you have it from the best Authority that waiting 

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THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 353 

for Warrants or proper Authority from the civill Magistrates for so 
doing is entirely without foundation, and contrary to the known and 
received Maxims of the Law, but shall act for the future in the usual 
way since the breaking out of the Rebellion. 

I congratulate Your Grace upon His Royal Highness the Duke's 
safe return, and hope I shall soon receive His Majesty's Commands to 
leave this Kingdom. 

I have the honour to subscribe myself with the greatest respect, 

My Lord, 

Your Grace's Most Obedient humble Servant, 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 12, by Cleverly. 

CXCI. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edenburgh January ye gth 174I. 

My Lord, 

Allow me to wish your Grace the usual Compliments of the 
season & to assure you that they are most sincere, for nobody has your 
honour, satisfaction, & happyness more at heart than myself, tho some- 
times I own I give myself airs of being uneasy at little things that 
happends, as for exemple, I could of wished (but pray forgive me if I am 
impertinent) your Grace had only sent an extract of my Letter to the 
Lord Advocate, as far as it related to Captain Hamilton's case, for by 
his being made acquainted with that part which concerns the disaffected 
Justices in the shire of Mearns & Kincardine, may do injury to my 
honest & zealous informant, who no doubt will be discovered by this 
means ; for no Scot[c]hman is to be trusted, having all connection with 
each other. 

As His Royal Highness the Duke is now returned to London, 
having as wee hear (by common fame) succeed'd most gloriously and 
Like himself in Holland, and that the season for preparing to go abroad 

J Addit. MSS. 32710, fol. 35. 
YY 



354 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

now approaches, for the Love of God, my Dear Lord Duke, name my 

successor & send him soon hither to relieve me ; if it is M^ Wentworth 

I know him well ; he has a thousand good qualitys, but is apt to be 

slow, & wants spurring, & my desease admits of no delay. 

I am with the greatest respect 

My Lord 

Your Graces most obedient and most humble servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
Endorsed : — Private. 

Rd. i2th (by Cleverly). 



CXCII. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, January 27th 1746/7. 

My Lord, 

I was favoured by the last Post with a Letter from the 
Secretary at War acquainting me that His Majesty had been pleased to 
appoint me to serve under His Royal Highness The Duke in Flanders. 
As this mark of His Majesty's Favour is in a great measure owing to 
your Grace's sollicitation, I need not tell you how happy you have 
made me, and how much I am obliged to your Grace, but shall endeav- 
our by my behaviour to deserve the Honour His Majesty has been 
pleased to confer upon me. 

I send your Grace by Express this Letter, and the enclosed Pre- 
cognition taken by M^ Rose of Kilraick, with an extract of a Letter from 
Lord Loudoun relating thereunto. 

Every thing seems quiet in the hills, and what confirms me in the 
opinion that they have given over all hopes of any succours from France 
is, that the principal Persons amongst them are every where endeavour- 
ing to make their escapes. I picked up five the other day in the Firth 
who were on board a ship bound for Holland, and had entered them- 

^ S.^ p. Scotl(^nd, Geo, II, Bundle 36, No, i6, 



THE ALBEMARLfe PAPfeRS. 355 

selves as Passengers under borrowed names ; ^ they are now Prisoners 

in the Castle, and will be examined by the Lord Advocate. 

I am with the greatest respect, 

My Lord, 

Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed: — Rd. 31. by Express. 

(Enclosure.) 
The Earl of Loudoun to the Earl of Albemarle. 

Inverness, Jan. 17* 1746/7. 

As Mr Rose of Kilraick has sent the Precognition which he has 
taken in Relation to Lord Lovat's behaviour to the Lord Justice Clerk, 
I herewith enclose ^ a copy of it for your Lordship's use. 

I hope the reasons I formerly gave your Lordship for my not taking 
the Precognition myself have justified me on that point, and I am now 
more convinced that I was right from a Consciousness that I could not 
have done it so well as the man that I employed, who has taken great 
labour and pains, and I imagine has succeeded to your Lordship's wish, 
and I am sure I have saved no labour by it, for I was present with him 
most of the time, and a very tedious affair it has been. 

I have writ to M"" Sharpe to acquaint him with what is done and to 
tell him that it is sent to my Lord Justice Clerk, who I presume will 
forward it directly. 

Since the Precognition was closed Lord Lovatt's cook is come in 
on a Summons and has been examined, but nothing material comes out 
by him, and as I imagine there is enough we thought it needless to add 
any more. 

There are several of the People named by M^ Sharpe whom I 
endeavoured many times to catch, but without success, on which we 
summoned them in the legal way ; those have not appeared, such as 

1 Cf. No. CXCnr, m/m. 2 it is not in the Bundle. 



356 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

John Fraser the Chamberlain, Hu. Fraser the Greeve who gave out 
the Meal and Green, John Fraser. I understood of the two last that 
they would have come in to give their Evidence (such as it would have 
been) if I would have declared that they should not be detained, but I 
did not chuse to take a load on myself where it was not absolutely 
necessary, for I think all we could have proposed to have proven by 
them is sufficiently proven without them. 

[Fraser of] Gortaleg was likewise summoned and has not come, but 
as it happened, he really was out of the Country settling some affairs 
in Badenoch ; but I will not venture to affirm that he would have come 
if he had been at home. 

There is but one thing further that occurs to me that is necessary 
to trouble your Lordship at present, which is, that from the multiplicity 
of people examined there may, when you come to call for such and 
such witnesses, be mistakes committed from the similitude of names ; 
therefore when any one is called for, I would beg that it might be done 
by naming such a man in such a Page of the Precognition. As to the 
Gentlemen that have been examined, particularly Chevez of Murlan 
and Fraser of Dumballoch, they will be ready to set out when ever 
called for, but I would humbly propose as to any of the Commons that 
may be wanted that there should be a Party sent to seize them, for 
which purpose I shall leave a Copy of the Precognition with Major 
General Blakeney and the Officer that was employed in bringing in 
those People in order to take the Precognition.^ 

Endorsed : — In the E. of Albemarle's 
of Jan. 27, 1746/7. 

CXCIII. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Private. Edinburgh, Feb. y^ 2^^ i74t- 

My Lord, 

I have received the favour of your Grace's private letter, 
which has given me great satisfaction, since it contains fresh instances 

^ Lord Lovat's trial commenced on March g, 1747. Cf. the Journal of it in Scots 
Magazine, vol. ix., pp. loi et seq. 

^S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 36. No. 23. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 357 

of your goodness and confidence, and it shall always be the pride of my 
heart to covet the same from your Grace by being open, free, and 
never deviating from my inviolable attachment to you. My joy at 
leaving this country is inexpressible, for tho I have aimed at strictly 
doing my duty and pleasing these people, I have found every day more 
and more difficulty in my attempts, the spirit of disaffection in the 
generallity, and that of partiallity and of skreening the most guilty in 
others (even amongst those in employment), is too much rooted to make 
it possible for an honest and zealous man to remain with them and at 
the same time preserve his character ; this and the desire to serve under 
H.R.H. the Duke has made me press your Grace and Mr Pelham so 
very strongly to be removed. I have according to your order shewn 
Major General Huske your letter, but have left it with him to judge 
for himself, for I could not have the face to back it with my advice to 
stay, as he knows too well my way of thinking upon the subject ; 
he seems very miserable and determined, (even at the cost of his 
employment) not to continue, of which he has sent to the Secretar}' of 
War. Lord Tyrawley must be the man,^ who with a crab stick will 
drub them into good manners. Your Grace commands me to send you 
my thoughts upon the measures for the future of this country, and the 
inclinations and abilitys of those in and out of employment fitt to serve 
the King ; this is too large a field for me to enter upon, I have sent a 
sketch of the characters of some people to M"" Pelham by the express I 
dispatched last tuesday, and I refer your Grace to that letter, but I 
must beg it may go no further. Upon the whole I think this Kingdom 
can never be kept in awe but by a sufficient military force, and at the 
same time I think it is a shame that the pay of so many men should be 
spent amongst them, for it is enriching this country at the expense of 
England. I am further of opinion that very few now employed deserve 
the King's favour, and very few out of employment fitt to replace them, 
I mean as to principals, for craft and cunning they all abound with. 
The small number that are well affected dare not act with zeal for fear 
of being exposed to the resentment of the majority ; the Sherifs seldom or 
never reside in their countys, except L^ Kintore, for the shires of Kincar- 
dine and Mearns, L^ Gray for the shires of Forfar, Grant of Grantsfield 

^Major-General Bland succeeded Lord Albemarle as Commander-in-Chief in Scotland. 
His appointment was not gazetted until September, 1747. 



358 THE Albemarle papers. 

for the shire of Aberdeen, and Gabriel Napier, a common writer, for Ster- 
ling shire, all four in their hearts Jacobites. The Deputys threw out (ex- 
cept Maitland and Sandiland for the Lothians ; Miller for Perthshire ; 
Hamilton for Haddington ; Colquhoun for Dumbarton ; Campbell of 
Stonfield for Argyle ; Leslie for Fyfe) are tainted and inactive in the 
good cause ; the Justices of the Peace are mostly a low sort of people 
and chiefly of the same stamp ; the Lords of Session don't carry a pro- 
per dignity of office ; the characters of the two first in rank I have 
mentioned to M^ Pelham as it occurred to me : what follows is my 
opinion in relation to the whole: Erskine of Dun, a Jacobite: Elliot of 
Minto, a bad man : Dalrymple of Drummore the same : Pringle ofHaining 
remarkable for nothing : Frazier of Shichen a good man but no lawyer : 
Farquson of Kileawan the same : Campbell of Monzie a sad fellow in all 
respects : Grant ofElchies the best lawyer upon the bench, but a Grant : 
Sinclair of Muckle I know nothing of : Robert Dondas of Arniston well 
spoke of but a violent patriot: Lord Lever a man of a fair character: 
Erskine of Sinwell a Vicar of Bray : Boyle of Showalton, the last made, 
your Grace must know. 

As to the case that Craigie gave me and that I transmitted to your 
Grace, I own it is put into a different light by the King's advocate, who 
I take to be generaley influenced ; by the enclos'd copy of Craigies letter 
on my accusing him of having mislaid me, will clear up that point to 
your Grace. I have not meddled in that affair since leaving the whole 
to the advocate, who must answer for his behaviour hereafter. Before 
I can end this long epistle I must mention an odd thing, which to my 
knowledge is true. I had information of five rebels of note having taken 
their passage for Holland on board a small ship commanded by one 
M'Kenzie called the Fortrose. I had them all seized, but to my great 
surprise they had all passes from the J. C. & L, A. by borrowed names ; 
copys of these passes I enclose to your Grace to prove this account ; the 
five men are now known by their true names, (viz) Ogilby of Pool, 
Mungo Graham, Bruce of Klackmannan, Cameron and Boswell ; they 
are my prisonners, confined to the Castle. I have left those Lords to 
clear themselves, but must beg an order from your Grace to the L^ 
Advocate to proceed against them according to due course of law. 
I am glad to find that the regality heiritable jurisdictions are to be 
taken from the Chiefs. I wish for the good of the King's service it may 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 359 

be done effectually, and that this may be pushed on with vigour. 
I believe I have most thoroughly tyred your Grace's patience ; if so, 
I beg your pardon & leave to remain for ever with great respect, 

My dear Lord Duke, 
Your most obedient humble servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
I desire my duty to my Lady Duchess. 
Endorsed : — Private. Rd. 7*^. 

{Enclosure I.) 
Robert Craigie to the Earl of Albemarle. 

Edinburgh, Feb. ist 174I. 

I acknowledge myself to be infinitely obliged to your Lordship for 
the notice you was pleased to give me, that I was accused of having 
misled His Majesty's servants by the case of Captain Hamilton that you 
transmitted to them. 

I hope your Lordship will do me the justice that I did not desire 
that employment, that I declined it as not falling within my province, 
but being the duty of His Majesty's servants, one of whom was Council 
in the cause as well as I, and that it was at your Lordship's pressing 
request that I undertook to frame the case. 

And as to the particulars complained of, viz. That it's said in the 
case, that it was found by the Court etc., which necessarily implys, that 
the Court pronounced such judgement, which is not true. 

I confess had I understood that I was only to have stated the words 
of the Interlocutor of the Court, it would have been very improper to 
apply for this to Councill. The Clerks servant would have been the 
proper officer. But as the case made some noise I thought what was 
desired was the opinions given by the Court that His Majesty's servants 
might be called to judge of the consequences of the judgment, which 
could not appear from the Interloq^, which gives no reasons, and I appre- 
hend that was done fairly, For 

Captain Hamilton's defence was laid out upon the difference between 
the rules of law against rebels in open rebellion during the rebellion 



360 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

and in times of peace, that in the first case their goods might be seiz'd 
or destroy'd as the goods of enemies etc ; this doctrine was denied by 
some of the judges except in the day of battle or the day after, and the 
court disregarded this defence, tho it is not mentioned in the interloqr. 

2<iiy. He defended himself upon the Act of Indemnity. The 
answer was that the indemnity concern'd only penal actions, But not 
actions for restitution, and this to me seem'd to be the opinion of the 
court, though indemnity is simply repelled by the judgement without 
any particular reason. I may be mistaken, but I believe this would 
have been held to be settled by the judgement had not His Majesty's 
Advocate appeared at the rehearing, which I am persuaded will not 
now be found. 

It gives me, I confess, great satisfaction that this misleading is 
like to produce so good effects in this country ; however, it will teach 
me more discretion in time coming than to meddle without my sphere. 

(Sign'd) ROBT CRAIGIE. 

Copy of a letter from Robert Craigie, Esq^ 
late Lord Advocate to Lord Albemarle. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's private letter 

of Feb. 2^ 174I. 

(Enclosure II.) 
Captain Parker to the Earl of Albemarle. 

My Lord, 

This acknowledges the favour of y^ Lordship's letter of the 
24*^^ Instant. 

In answer to which, I beg leave to acquaint you that the Raven 
and Tryall Sloops (under my command) are ready for the sea, I only 
waiting for a sheet anchor which has been shipp'd at Leverpoole above 
3 weeks by order of the Commissioners of the Navy ; but upon the 
receipt of your Lordship's letter, I have consulted with my pilot (who 
is an old experienced man) about sailing directly for the Western Coast 
of Scotland, agreable to your Lordship's advice, and it is his opinion, 
that it will be attended with great danger to endeavour to get there till 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 361 

the weather is more settled, and when arrived there it will be im- 
possible to stir out of harbour ; but, however, the weather may be more 
moderate by that time my anchor arrives, which I shall give your 
Lordship immediate advice of. 

(Sign'd) EDWD PARKER. 

P.S. — The Sandwich Tender sailed the 26*^^ of last month with hair 
and straw for Fort William, but meeting with excessive bad weather, 
lost her main mast and received other damages, and is arrived in this 
port, which I am repairing with all possible dispatch. 
Endorsed : — Copy of a letter from Captain Parker 
to Lord Albemarle. 
Dated on board the Raven Sloop 
Greenock Road 27th Jan^y 174T. 
In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Feb. 2nd 174I. 

{Enclosure III.) 

Copies of Passes Granted by the Lord Justice-Clerk and 
THE Lord Advocate. 

By the Right Hon^ie Andrew Fletcher, Lord Justice Clerk. 
Permit the bearer James Watt, mason in Edinburgh, to pass to 
Holland unmolested, he behaving as becometh. 
Given at Edinburgh 17 Decem' 1746. 

(Sign'd) AND. FLETCHER. 
To all concern'd, 
(at bottom of this pass) 
Wm Jackson, Sen^ Writer. 

By the Rt Hon^e Andrew Fletcher, Lord Justice Clerk. 
Permit the bearer M"" James Campbell, merchant in Paisley, to 
pass from this to Holland unmolested, he behaving as becometh. 
Given at Edinb^ 17th Decemr 1746. 

(Sign'd) ANDW FLETCHER. 
To all concern'd. 

(Endors'd). Recommended by Ja. Taylor, Writer to the Signet. 

zz 



362 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

By the Hon^le William Grant of Preston Grange Esqr. His 
Majesty's Advocate. 

Permit the bearer James Andrew, merchant in Glasgow, to pass 
from this to Holland without lett or molestation, he behaving himself 
as becometh. 

Given at Edinburgh the 23rd day of December 1746. 

(Sign'd) WILLIAM GRANT. 
To all concern'd. 

(Endors'd) These do certifie that the within design'd James 
Andrew is a true and loyal subject to His Majesty King George and 
was not any ways concern'd in the rebellion, known to 

(Sign'd) JAS FORDYCE. 

By the Hon^le William Grant of Preston Grange Esqi^^^ His 
Majesty's Advocate. 

Permit the bearer John Jamison, merchant in Dollar, to pass from 
this to Holland without lett or molestation, he behaving himself as 
becometh. 

Given at Edin^ the 26th day of Dec^" 1746. 

(Sign'd) WILLIAM GRANT. 
To all concern'd. 

(Endors'd) These do certifie that the within design'd John Jami- 
son is a true and loyall subject to His Majesty King George and was 
not any ways concern'd in the rebellion known to 

(Sign'd) JAS. FORDYCE. 

By the HonWe William Grant of Preston Grange Esq, His Majesty's 
Advocate. 

Permit the bearer Patrick Hay, merchant in Glasgow, to pass from 
this to Holland without lett or molestation, he behaving himself as 
becometh. 

Given at Edinb^ this 19th day of Decemr 1746. 

(Sign'd) WILLIAM GRANT. 
To all concern'd. 

(Endors'd) These do certifie that the within design'd Patrick Hay 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 36J 

is a true and loyall subject to His Majest}' King George, and was not 
any ways concern'd in the rebellion known to 

(Sign'd) HENRY ST CLAIR. 
Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's private letter 
of Feb 2"*^ 174I. 



CXCIV. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, February 5th 174^. 
My Lord, 

I had yesterday the honour of your Grace's Letter of the 
31st ijy express, which the instant I received, I went to Lord Justice 
Clerk's, who still continues extremely ill. I communicated to him that 
part of your Grace's Letter which concerned the Persons who are to be 
sent up as Evidences against Lord Lovat ; as his Lordship had your 
Grace's directions upon that subject, M^ McMillan his Deputy was 
immediately dispatched with Letters from both of us to Lord Loudoun 
and General Blakeney at Inverness, to get the People mentioned in 
your List and send them up with all possible expedition to London so 
as to be there by the 23rd Instant. 

M"" Stewart ^ is here and shall be sent to London as your Grace 
directs, he can be of little use in Lord Lovat's affair, but as he was 
under Secretary to Murray of Broughton, he is undoubtedly capable of 
making considerable discoveries ; he is an artful cunning fellow, and 
thoroughly tainted with dishonest principles. I shall use my best 
endeavours to induce him to tell what he knows ; in the mean time 
your Grace has his Character and will make a proper use of it. 

I must desire Your Grace will send Young Mr Vane directly to 
Holland, where when I meet him, I shall very willingly shew him all 
the Countenance and Friendship Your Grace, his father or himself can 
desire ; it will be impossible to give him either the title or pay of Aid-de- 
Camp, as I have been provided some time since with the number the 

^ S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 36. No. 28. 

^ Charles Stewart. His evidence at Lovat's trial is in Scots Magazine, vol. ix., p. 112. 



364 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Government allows me, but my House and Table shall be always at his 
Service. 

The Earl of Eglington, a young nobleman of this country, is just 
now gone to London ; as his Principles are somewhat unsteady and not 
absolutely fixed, it would be worth your Grace's while to take some 
notice of him, and to endeavour to make him a good Subject of His 
Majesty's. 

I beg Your Grace would send me some answer to the question 
I have so often asked, in relation to the French Officers who are 
Prisoners in the Castle of Edinburgh. 

I am with the greatest respect 

My Lord 

Your Grace's most humble and most obedient Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 

P.S. — Since I have finished my Letter I have received two from 
different Persons upon different subjects, Extracts of which I send Your 
Grace. 

His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed: — Rd. ii*. 

{Enclosure I.) 

Intelligence. 

Extract of a Letter from Perthshire to Lord Albemarle — dated 
Feb. y^^ 174I. 

I observe by a Letter by this Post from my Lord Justice 
Clerk to the Clerk of the Peace of Perthshire, that His Majesty has 
ordered Copies of all the present Commissions for Justices of the Peace 
in the several Shires of Scotland to be transmitted to the Duke of New- 
castle's Office at London. This looks as if some due regard will be 
paid to your Lordship's Representations concerning the disaffections of 
many, especially of the inferiour Judges and Magistrates of Scotland. 
But if the Ministry at London shall concert with the Scots members of 
Parliament as to the Justices to be now put in Commission, I am 
positive that matters will be as bad, if not worse than formerly. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 365 

Patrick Murray of Dullary, who was by order of His Royal High- 
ness the Duke committed prisoner for Treasonable Practices in February 
174I, and was of late admitted to bail, is a Justice of the Peace, Clerk 
to the Peace, and principal Sheriff Clerk of this Shire, and the report 
now demanded will no doubt be signed by him, so that we are not in 
good hands here. 

Extract of a Letter from Argyllshire to Lord Albemarle — dated 
2 Fehu 'i-7A^l7- 

At present I have no Intelligence from the north hand worth your 
Lordships notice. The Inhabitants of the Rebellious Countries begin 
to be in misery for want of Provisions ; steal they must, or leave their 
Country, which is as bad as death. I wish their Lo5'al neighbours do 
not feel the Consequence of their starved condition. 

Those distressed Creatures, however, are fed with vain hopes of 
sudden succours from France, which will be the Constant Cant while 
we are yet at war with that Nation. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Feb. 5th 1746/7. 

(Enclosure IL) 

Archibald Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle. 

Inveraray 5*^^^ February, 1747. 
My Lord, 

I was honoured last night with your Lords Letter of the 2^^, 

and in return send your LorP the sum of my Intelligences in a paper 

a part herewith inclosed. 

I have no doubt we shall every day till the Campaign is opened 
have fresh packets of succours from France. Tho' I consider intelli- 
gence from that Quarter as chiefly Intended to amuse us and to stop 
the Embarkment of our Troops for Flanders, yet I am very much of 
your Lorps opinion that we ought to be watchful of the motions of the 
Pretenders adherents in those parts. 

I cannot help mentioning to your LorP that it seems extremely 
proper that a command were stationed at Strenshan and Ellanstalker. 
The first is within Eisfht miles of the West Coast and in the heart of a 



^66 THE Albemarle papers. 

rebellious and disorderly Country, so that a discreet officer may have it 
in his power to have information of any landing from Bernera in Glenelg 
Westward in Two or Three days after it happens. There is a good 
cover for men there, and that Command will be a Check on any move- 
ment projected by the rebels in that Country, and may in a very short 
time be reenforced from Fort William when necessary, but provisions 
must be sent for Subsisting Troops there, which may be done by water. 
I need not say any thing of Ellanstalker as your LorP has already been 
well informed of the Importance of that place. 

Your LorP will likewise forgive me to tell you that Glencoe and 
Cliften are proper Stations for Troops. There is good Accommodation 
for a Company of men in the last, and it is a thoroughfare from the 
Lowlands to the rebellious Highlands, through which Messengers to or 
from the south do pass, and is a frontier between Lochaber, the Shires 
of Argyle, Perth and Dumbarton. 

I must take the liberty to mention one other thing to your LorP, 
which I imagine may serve to promote the Public safety while we are 
at War with France, and that is to take a Wherry from 15 to 20 
Tons Burden to the Government service, who shall constantly Cruize 
from the Lewis to Barra head, Canna, and the North point of Mull. 

This Vessel to be Employed for bringing intelligence of any ships 
coming into those Seas ; by means of such a Vessel, I am satisfied the 
government may have more early intelligence of what ever passes than 
any other way. She must be under the direction of a very Trusty 
fellow, and he should cover his Reell purpose by carrying some Goods 
for sale to those parts. He can go into Creeks and Harbours where 
larger boats dare not venture. 

I am, my Lord, Your Lorps &c. 

CXCV. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh Feb. 9* 1746/7. 
My Lord, 

I have just now received the enclosed intelligence from 
Mr Campbell of Stonefield, Sheriff Depute for the Shire of Argyll, a 

1 S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 36. No. 29. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 367 

sensible, understanding man and sincerely attached to his Majesty's 
Service ; to this Gentleman I wrote upon the reception of your Grace's 
Letter of the 28th Instant, as well as to some others whom I can safely 
confide in, desiring them to send me as soon as possible what intelli- 
gence they could collect, and to let me know what the hopes and 
expectations of the Highlanders were at this juncture ; his Letters are 
the only ones yet come to hand, and I really believe the first part of it, 
relating to the arrival of Torcastle's Son. I likewise am persuaded 
that what is said with regard to Ardsheills is true, and that Roy Stuart 
is still in this Country. The latter part, which mentions the Five 
French Ships, I can give no great Credit to, but if it should prove a 
fact, I shall immediately hear more of it ; in the mean time it would be 
highly necessary that some of his Majesty's Ships should be sent to 
cruize upon the Western Coast to prevent alarms and insults of this 
nature. I have told your Grace in a former Letter the exact state of 
our Naval Force in this Kingdom, which must be reinforced by some 
of His Majesty's Ships of War, or Major General Huske will never be 
able to exert himself as he might in the King's Service ; the escape of 
many Rebels and the frequent appearance of Privateers upon these 
Coasts is altogether owing to the want of these. The Western is 
entirely unguarded, and while it remains so. His Majesty's Enemies 
may send thither what money. Officers, and Arms they please. 
I am with the greatest respect 
My Lord, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant, 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 13th- 

{Enclosure.) 

Intelligence. 

A bstract of Intelligence from the North hand to M^ Campbell of Stone- 
field, Sheriff of Argyll. 

Inveraray Feb. 5*^ 1746/7. 

A Courier is lately come from France, who has brought the Pre- 
tender's adherents agreeable intelligence. That he is at Sea or very 



368 ' THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

soon to be. This Courier is a bastard son of Cameron of Tor Castle. 
He came from the South and landed in England ; it is very certain that 
some of the Rebel Gentlemen have had frequent meetings with M"" 
Stuart of Ardsheil since in the Country of Appin, particularly Tor- 
castle. Before the Messenger arrived Ardsheil was extremely anxious 
of embracing the first opportunity of going over seas, but ever since 
says nothing of it. This Courier must have come three weeks ago. 

It is believed that John Roy Stuart is in Scotland and is the Chief 
Confident of the Party, and the person to whom all intelligence is 
transmitted from France. 

Late last night a surmise came to hand. That Five French Ships 
are actually come to Scotland, but no mention of time or place ; if they 
are any where upon the West coast, I must have it confirmed to me 
soon. 

There is some talk that Doctor Cameron is come, which may have 
arisen from Torcastle's Son's arrival. 

Endorsed : — In Lord Albemarle's of Feb^y gth 1746/7. 



CXCVI. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Feb. ii^h 1746. 
My Lord, 

Since I had the honour to write to your Grace on Monday 
last by express I have collected the enclosed intelligence ; the one from 
M"" Campbell of Airds, a sensible person and very well affected, living 
in Argyllshire; the other from one that lately came from the North 
through the Eastern hills. Since the receipt of these I have had letters 
from Inverness, Fort Augustus and Fort William, that mentions nothing 
particular ; which confirms my opinion, that except what relates to the 
arrival of Tor Castle's Son, and to Ardsheils having changed his mind 
about going abroad, the rest are only Rumours without foundation, and 
chiefly spread by John McDonald, a Taylor of this Town,^ who went 

IS, p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 36. No. 31, ^j Donald Macdonqld, 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 369 

North about three weeks ago, with forged Passes of the Lord Justice 
Clerk's, the Lord Advocate's, mine, and Lieutenant General Went- 
worth's, as he stiled the last Commander in Chief in Scotland ; he was 
suspected and narrowly escaped being taken, and went off in Women's 
Clothes to the Isle of Skye. 

Lord Justice Clerk sends to-morrow to London Robert Fraser of 
Castle-lathers, an evidence desired by the Attorney General, and by the 
same opportunity I shall send Charles Stuart, the man Your Grace 
order'd me to convey to London ; the Person who has the care of him 
is one Peter ^ Campbell, whom I take the liberty to recommend to your 
Grace, he was employed as an Interpreter at the Tryall of the Rebels 
at Carlisle, and has since been sent by me for intelligence into several 
parts of this Kingdom, which he has executed with the utmost diligence, 
secrecy and trust. 

M"^ McMillan, whom the Lord Justice Clerk sent into Inverness 
Shire, met Lord Loudoun at Tay Bridge, who returned with him 
thither, to assist him in persuading or obliging those Frasers who were 
examined by his Lordship and M^ Ross of Kilraick to come this way. 
As to all other particulars relating to them, or steps taken in con- 
sequence of the directions Lord Justice Clerk received himself, I must 
refer your Grace to his Lordship's Letter, which he sends this Evening 
by Express, and by whose opportunity I send this dispatch. 

The Lord Justice Clerk's illness (of which he is by now recovering) 
occasions the delay in sending to your Grace the List of Rebel Prisoners 
in this Kingdom in the manner you ordered us to do it ; but he assured 
me that having sent several expresses to the several Counties, he flatters 
himself he shall soon be able to obey your Commands. 

I received last night by Express your Grace's Letter of the 7*^ 
Instant, with His Majesty's Commands to send the Prisoners who had 
Commissions in the French Service, Officers upon their Parole, and the 
private men now confined in the several Goals, to Berwick, with an 
officer, who is to take a receipt for them from Brigadier Price, or the 
Officer Commanding at that Place, which is afterwards to be trans- 
mitted to your Grace for His Majesty's information. I have in part 
already executed these orders, having released those in the Castle of 
Edinburgh upon signing their Parole of Honour, who are to set out for 

1 Patrick. 
AAA 



370 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Berwick on Friday next,^ and we shall send directions to Genii Blake- 

ney to send those at Inverness to this Town as soon as possible, to be 

afterwards forwarded in the same manner to Berwick. 

I am with the greatest respect 

My Lord 

Your Grace's most Obedient humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed: — Rd. 15th 

(Enclosure I.) 
ACCOUNT OF A Journey through the North-East Highlands. 

January, 1747. In travelling through Badenoch found that the 
Inhabitants of all that Country are living peaceably at home, save a 
very few who never surrendered, and all of them are fond of Rebellion 
and Expecting a Landing of the French upon the West Coast. 

They have still plenty of Arms, for when they surrendered they 
gave up only some rusty useless Arms, and still keep the fresh good 
Arms. 

Such of the Erasers and other People in Lord Lovat's Country as 
were in the late Rebellion and disaffected are at home and labouring 
their Grounds, having got protections on account of having surrender'd 
their Arms. 

They have Arms, as they only delivered up the worst. 

There are several men going through Lovat's Grounds and Sea- 
forth's in Women's Cloaths, conversing with and frequenting the 
Houses of those notoriously known to be disaffected, and its thought 
they are distributing some papers brought from the South amongst the 
people who are professed Jacobites ; Every one spiriting up another to 
a Rebellion in the Spring, as they have great assurances of a Landing, 
as they say, and seem all willing to join. 

In conversing with some of the M^Kenzies in and about Lord Sea- 

1 Among the French officers thus released were Major Kennedy, Captain O'Brien and 
Captain Felix O'Neil. Donald Macdonald (whom Lord Albemarle calls Young Clanranald) 
was also released on parole, — Scots Magazine, vol. ix., p. 92, 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 37! 

forth's Lands, who openly spoke their minds, say that they have all 
their arms in readiness to join the expected Landing of the French in 
the Spring. 

They have such plenty of money that they have raised the Price of 
the Whiskey from 12 to 18 & 2osh and also the meal to a very high 
price. 

The people of Strathbogie are all at home labouring their grounds, 
but as much disposed for Rebellion as ever, had they an opportunity. 

There are little or none of the Town of Inverury inhabited, the 
people having been either killed or absconding. 

Tho' the people of Aberdeenshire are all quiet at home, yet it's 
believed they are in readiness to embrace a Rebellion and are expecting 
a landing this Spring. 

John ^ McDonald, Taylor in Cannongate, is going thro' Lovat's 
Country alongst with two men having forged passes from General 
Wentworth and others, pretending to have business and seeking up 
debts in that Country. They caused a boy at Bewley to sign Lord 
Advocate's name to a Pass. 

It's generally believed by the well affected people in that place that 
McDonald is distributing papers amongst the Country people and giving 
them intelligence of the French Landing ; at least making them believe 
so ; and upon his getting notice that he was to be apprehended, made 
his escape into the Isle of Skye. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Feb. II, i74y. 



{Enclosure II.) 

Intelligence. 

I was honoured with yours of the 10* Decern"* some days before 
I set out on my Expedition to the Isles, from whence I returnd home 
the zy^'^ Ulto. There, and in all the Countries I passed thro', such as 
Lochaber, Moydart, Aresaig and Merer, all things seem to be quiet for 
the present, 

1 ? Donald. 



^J2 THE ALBEMARLe PAPEkg. 

The general opinion, however, is that an invasion is intended this 
Spring about Patrickmas ; grounded upon a promise made or message 
sent the outstanding Rebels to that purpose. But notwithstanding 
these views, I find many of them are desirous to submit, if received. 
I was informed about one hundred of the Clan Cameron continued in 
Arms on Locharkeg side. 

On my way forward I saw Cap* Campbell, Lieu* Governor of Fort 
William, who shewed me an order from your Lordship impowering him, 
on certain conditions, to receive the Arms of Rebel officers under the 
rank of Captains. This made me send messages to all such as fell in 
my way under that denomination, who all agreed to accept the terms 
offered ; some of them I conversed with, who gave the utmost assurances 
words could express, that they never again would join in any attempt 
against the Government ; upon which I appointed a day for their going 
with me to Fort William. But when I had acquainted the Governor 
with what I had done, he informed me that his orders were recalled. 
I must own, my Lord, I was sorry to receive this information, as in my 
poor opinion it was a Plan well calculated for binding these people to 
their good behaviour ; whereas, as they stand at present, they will be 
ready to join in any undertaking, how wicked and desperate soever. 

Young Clanronald was at Aresaig as I passed, but on hearing of my 
coming to the Country, he retired further North. The McDonald's of 
Clanronald's Family received no part of the money left with Clunie 
Mcpherson, which occasions some Grudge and ill will betwixt them and 
the Clan Cameron, who, it seems, the McDonalds blame for their being 
so much neglected. 

I find Clunie gives out no great sums to any Tribe, which indeed 
I am informed is but agreeable to his instructions from the Young 
Pretender at parting, Which were, to keep money as much as possible 
together, till advised by him of his having no hopes of returning. 

I settled a correspondence with a person in the Island of Canna, 
and with another in Uist, who are to acquaint me when any Foreign 
Ships come on the Coast, or when any Emissary is sent to these Isles. 
I likewise planned a correspondence from Aresaig, but do not think 
myself so sure of my Man there as I am of the former two. I could 
find nobody in Lochaber to be trusted, but I can depend upon my 
Intelligencer in Appin and Morvern. I judged it proper to give these 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 373 

People some consideration, with a promise of being better acknowledged 
when they bring or send any intelligence of consequence. 

Since parting with your Lordship, I gave out in whole, on the score 
of intelligence, £2^. 

I was not a little surprised, upon my return home, to find that 
matters in this Country of Appin do not seem to be so very quiet as in 
the Isles and other places where I have been. 

About a fortnight since, Ludovick Cameron of Torcastle came to 
this Country, where he still remains, and has had frequent meetings 
with Ardsheill and others of their Party ; it is certain that before Tor- 
castle came to this Country, Ardsheill was resolved to embrace the 
first opportunity of going to France, but now, after meeting with that 
Gentleman, all thoughts of going abroad are laid aside ; there are 
other strangers in this Country at present who keep private besides 
Torcastle, some from Athol whose names I have not yet learned, and 
one Baine, who was M"" Murray of Broughton's Principal Servant. They 
have taken an oath of secrecy to each other as to their Councils. 

In short, I find an unusual stir among the people of this Country 
at present, which with Ardsheill's change of measures, and their 
frequent meetings, must make me conclude they are hatching some 
mischief or other ; it is even whispered that the French are already, or 
soon will be, at sea. 

It is said that Col. John Roy Stuart is now some where in Scotland, 
that he is the spring of all their French intelligence, and that from 
him Clunie receives all his instructions. All their intelligence in this 
Country of Appin at present seems to come from the South, which I 
take to be the reason why they chuse to correspond from Appin, rather 
than Lochaber or Moydart, as being nearer the Low Country. 

I am told that Doctor Cameron, Lochiel's brother, is lately arrived 
from France, and the report of the Laird of M^Lachlan's being still in 
life is again revived. I cannot affirm with certainty as to these last 
mentioned particulars. But it is certain that a son of Torcastle's arrived 
in Lochaber very lately from abroad, and it is given out that he brought 
them encouraging intelligence. 

As the Jacobites are at present in a flutter, and very likely have 
something in view, especially those of this Country, I beg leave to 
suggest the following hints, which I humbly submit to your Lordship. 



374 THE ALBEMARLfe PAPERS. 

The Command at Island Stalker is so small that it cannot answer 
the purpose of apprehending Rebels. I would therefore propose to add 
to the said Command, Forty of the Military, with an alert Officer, and 
to station the like number in Glenco, and a Company of the Military 
with a Highland Company at Strontian ; for I judge a mixture of the 
Highland Companies and the other Troops would answer best. I 
humbly think these Commands might apprehend any outstanding 
Rebels in their neighbourhood, or at least oblige them to flit their 
Quarters. I confine myself to the above places, there being no proper 
cover further North for any Troops this season of the year. 

P.S. — After writing the above I had a letter from the Sheriff of 
Argyll, ordering the whole command at Island Stalker to be dismissed, 
but considering some particulars above mentioned and reflecting on 
several other inconveniences that might attend the leaving that House 
altogether Defenceless, I have ventured to keep a few of the men 
together, even tho' I should be at the charge myself, till such time as 
your Lordship advises me to continue any men there, or any other 
Command to be sent in their place. 

M"^ John Stuart, Episcopal Minister in Ross shire, corresponds 
with the Rebels of this Country. One Conchie, of the same profession 
near Doun, was last week a night at Ardsheill's, and went South next 
day, and yesterday Baine, Broughton's Servant, and one Stuart from 
Athol left this Country. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Feb. II, 1746/7. 



CXCVII. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinr Feb. 14th 1747. 
My Lord, 

A Noted Rebel to whom I gave a Protection to come here 
upon his promising to make great Discoveries, for which he hopes here- 
after to have His Majesty's Pardon and a Reward, was examined last 

^ S. p. Scotland, Geo, II. Bmidle 36. No. 33. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 375 

night by The Lord Justice Clerk and myself, and has given us the 
enclosed intelligence ; he flatters us with the hopes of being the means 
of securing Clunie McPherson, and he sets out to-morrow from hence 
with that view, and to procure us farther information of the steps taken 
at this juncture by the Rebels in the Hills. The two Persons supposed 
to be French Gentlemen are come South, and I am informed are con- 
cealed in this Town. 

I have just now received a Letter from M^ Campbell, The Sheriff 
Depute for Argyleshire, an Extract of which I send your Grace. 

I am with the greatest respect 

My Lord, 

Your Grace's Most obedient humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
Endorsed : — Rd. 18. by Express. 



(Enclosure I.) 
Archibald Campbell to the Earl of Albemarle. 

Inverary, ii^h Feb^y, 1747. 

The Letter your Lordship did me the honour to write me of the 
gth I received this morning. 

I am very glad I have had no farther intelligence of the Five 
French Ships, which confirms me in the opinion that the Report was 
groundless, 

I have nothing new to advise your Lordship of at present. These 
Gentlemen in the Country of Appin continue their Consultations. I 
have not yet been able to penetrate into their schemes. 

Money is still distributed among the Pretender's adherents. 

I have directed some of my friends on the Frontiers of the Rebel- 
lious Countries to be watchful of the movements in those parts, and 
when any thing of the least moment occurs, to give me early notice of 
it, and you may be perfectly satisfied I shall not fail to communicate it 
to your Lordship with all possible dispatch. 

Whatever airs the French may give themselves, and tho' they may 
easily amuse some of our ignorant giddy people, I can hardly believe 



376 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

they ever can persuade the Pretender's Son to come over again. So 
much difficulty he had to govern the People he had in Arms formerly, 
so much hardship he has suffered in every shape, that I must conclude 
him a madman if he ventures again. However, it is very prudent to 
have a sharp look out. 

(Sign'd) ARCHD CAMPBELL. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Febry. 14, 1746/7. 



(Enclosure II.) 

Substance of J. D.s Examination taken before Lord Justice- 
Clerk AND Lord Albemarle. 

J. D. declares that about the middle of January a French Ship, 
supposed by its size to be a 40 Gun Ship, called at the Island of Egg, 
where they landed about 2000 Stand of Arms (viz) Musketts and 
Swords, which were delivered to Clanronald's Friends and by them said 
afterwards to have been sent in open boats to Uist, Two persons said 
to be French Gentlemen came on Shore there, with Doctor Cameron, 
brother to Lochiell, which last person met about a fortnight ago with 
Clunie M^Pherson and Angus Cameron, brother to Glenevis, at Rannoch, 
where a guinea was ordered to be paid to each private man engaged in 
the Rebellion, and they were to be told that they were to enter on full 
Pay by the first of March, and that there would be use for them soon 
after. Doctor Cameron assured them that there would soon be a French 
Landing, and possibly by that time they were at Sea, and said that 
they were to have other assistance besides the French. 

Endorsed : — Copy of J. D.s Examination. 

In the Earl of Albemarle's Letter 
of Feb. 14, 1746/7. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 377 

CXCVIII. 
The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh Feb. ig^h 1746/7. 

My Lord, 

I send Your Grace enclosed a Memorial from the Magis- 
trates of Sterling to His Majesty about the rebuilding the Arch of their 
Bridge, with an estimate of the Charges, as likewise the copy of a 
Letter from General Bland to those Gentlemen, informing them what he 
had done in that affair before His Royal Highness went to Holland. 
Your Grace will see by the estimate and Memorial that the Magistrates 
have exactly complied with the General's directions, and you will give 
me leave to recommend this thing to your Grace in the strongest 
manner ; as the Arch of this Bridge was broke down by General Blake- 
ney to stop the march of the Rebels, as it may be greatly detrimental 
to His Majesty's service in case His Troops have not a free passage 
over the Forth, and as the rebuilding this Arch will be of infinite use to 
the Town and County of Sterling, whose Magistrates and Inhabitants 
have signalized themselves in their zeal and attachment to His Majesty 
and His Royal Family ; for these reasons I hope His Majesty will be 
graciously pleased either to order the charge of the Estimate to be paid 
to the Magistrates that they may rebuild the Arch themselves, or that 
the work may be undertaken at the expence of the Government. 

I have nothing new from the Hills worth your Grace's attention. 

Thirteen of our Transports are arrived ; the remaining Eight sailed 
from Shields the 14th at night, since which the weather has been so 
tempestuous that I am under great uneasiness about them, not knowing 
where they are, or what is become of them.^ 

I am with the greatest respect 

My Lord, 

Your Grace's most humble and most obedient Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 

His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 25. 

^ S. P. Scotland, Geo. II., Bundle 36. No. 36. 

^ Lord Albemarle with Howard's Old Buffs, Campbell's Scots Fusiliers, Fleming's, Con- 
way's, and Dejean's regiments sailed from Leith for Flanders on March 6. — Scots Magazine, 
vol. ix., p. 92. 

BBB 



378 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

(Enclosure I.) 

Petition of the Corporation of Stirling. 

To the King's most Excellent Majesty. The Humble Petition of the 
Magistrates and Town Council on behalf of themselves and Cor- 
poration of the Royal Burgh of Stirling Sheweth — 

That in the month of December 1745, before the coming of the 
Rebels to this Town, Major General Blakeney, then commanding 
under your Majesty in the castle of Stirling, judged it necessary for 
your Majesty's Service to order the Demolition of one of the Arches of 
the Stone Bridge over the River Forth adjacent to this Town : Whereby 
the seige of your Majesty's Castle of Sterling.^ by the Rebels was not 
only retarded, but their passing over our Bridge effectually prevented. 

On the seasonable arrival of His Royal Highness the Duke of 
Cumberland in this Place,^ he was pleased, in order to render the said 
Bridge passable by your Majesty's Army, to cause make up the Breach 
made in the Arch with beams of Timber supported on Pillars of the 
same kind, which tho' they answered the then necessity, can be but of 
short endurance, considering the Impetuosity of the River, and in the 
event of an intense Frost, altogether impossible to stand against the 
breaking of the ice ; so that by reason of the great use the Bridge is, not 
only for the Conveniency of your Majesty's Troops infrequently passing 
thereat, but for carrying on the ordinary Commerce in this Country, the 
repairing of the said Arch with stones appears to be absolutely necessary. 
And as the Revenue of this Town of Sterling is extremely small and 
unable to bear the charge of such reparation. The Petitioners have 
judged it their duty most humbly to lay the case before your Majesty, 
and with it to offer an estimate hereto annexed of the sum necessary 
for repairing the said Arch with Stone, made up by Persons of the best 
Credit and greatest skill in the place, and sworn to by them ; Begging 
your Majesty may be graciously pleased to give order for the speedy 
repairing of the said Arch with stone, or the sum in the Estimate to be 
paid in to the Petitioners, to be employed by them for said purpose, 

^ The Castle was summoned to surrender on January 18, 1746. 
2 On February 2, 1746. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 47, 



tllE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 370 

which they will most cheerfully do, and answer for the sufficiency of the 
work. 

May it therefore please Your Majesty to give such Order in the 
Premises as to your Majesty in your goodness shall seem fit. 

And your Petitioners shall ever pray. 

Signed, In Presence of the Magistrates and Town Council of 
Sterling, by 

JA WALLACE, Provost. 

Estimate of the Charge necessary in rebuilding the Arch 
OF the Bridge of Sterling. 

To 1220 Feet of Fir Loggs at i sh. ^^ . . £61 o o 
To 130 Deals 13 feet for racking and covering 

the Centers at i sh. and 2^^^ . . . 7 11 o 

To 70 double Deals, 12 feet long for the selvage 

of the Centers at 2 sh. and ^^ ^ Deal . . 7 17 6 

To 4234 feet of cut Stone quarrying, carting and 

hewing at lo^ ^^ 173 i 8 

To 404 yards of Ruble work at 3 sh. & 4^ ^ yard 67 6 8 

Total Charge ;^3i6 i6 lo 



We Robert Henderson and John Anderson, Measons, Do hereby 
attest and make oath, as we shall answer to God, That to the best of 
our Knowledge and Judgement, the above is a just and true estimate. 

ROT HENDERSON 
JOHN ANDERSON. 
Sworn by me 

JA WALLACE, J.P. 

Done in presence of Peter Halkett, Commanding in Stirling. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's Letter 
of Febry. 19th 1746/7. 



^80 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

{Enclosure II.) 
Major-General Bland to the Magistrates of Stirling. 

Sir, 

Yesterday I was favoured with yours of the 23 instant, and 
this morning I spoke to H.R.H. the Duke about rebuilding the Arch of 
your Bridge at the expense of the Government, as it was pulled down 
by General Blakeney to prevent the Rebels from crossing the river 
there. To this H.R.H. said it should be done ; and will send Lord 
Albemarle directions about it by this Post, and which I believe is to be 
done in the following manner, viz. That a copy of the Estimate of the 
charges is to be drawn out and signed by the Commanding Officer in 
Stirling, to which must be joined a Memorial from the Magistrates to 
His Majesty, setting forth the Matters of fact (in the same manner as 
the one you sent to the Earl of Albemarle while I was there), and then 
praying that His Majesty would be graciously pleased to order the said 
Arch to be rebuilt, or to direct that the money set down on the estimate 
may be paid to you, and you would rebuild it immediately. 

I assure you I did not forget my promise, nor ever missed any 
opportunity of doing strict justice to all the members of your Corpora- 
tion, being thoroughly sensible of their zeal and strong attachment to 
the present Royal Family, and the Happy Revolution Principles. 

I must beg the favour of you to make my sincere Compliments to 
all the Gentlemen of the Corporation, and your two worthy Ministers 
Mr Turner and M"" McQueen, and to assure them that I shall always 
remain with the utmost esteem both yours and theirs 

Most obedient and very humble Servant 

(Signed) HUM. BLAND. 

London 31 Jan^ 1747. 

Endorsed: — In the Earl of Albemarle's. Letter 
of Febry. ig, 1746/7. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 3^1 

CXCIX. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Febr. 20th 1746/7. 
My Lord, 

I must beg your Grace will acquaint His Majesty that 
Thirteen of the Transports, with Commodore Towry in the Experiment, 
arrived in the Firth last Sunda)^ morning ; ^ that the remaining eight 
(as I am informed from M^" Ridley at Newcastle) sailed from Shields on 
the i4*h at night, under convoy of the Kingston, an armed Vessell ; since 
which we have had extreme bad weather, with the wind at North East ; 
and it is the Commodore's opinion that they are blown a good way to 
the Southwards, if nothing worse has happened to them. I am very 
uneasie at this disappointment and the uncertainty of their fate ; no 
disposition can be made for the Embarkation till the whole are arrived. 
The Troops ^ are all ready in their Cantoonments on the East of Fife, 
and we wait for nothing but the appearance of our strayed Vessells to 
get them on board. 

We have had no desertion from faur Regiments on their march to 
their Quarters of Cantoonment, and but three men have deserted from 
the Scots Fuziliers, and those we are in hopes to recover before we 
embark, and the whole seems to be extremely well pleased at the 
thoughts of serving His Majesty abroad. 

We have lately had no news from the North worth your Grace's 
notice, which makes me believe that many lies are told upon slight 
foundations. 

I am with the greatest respect 
My Lord 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

ALBEMARLE. 

I send your Grace enclosed a receipt for the French Prisoners who 
were sent from this Town to Berwick ; as soon as the rest arrives from 
Inverness, they shall be sent in the like manner. 

His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 24. 

^ S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 36, No. 37. 

2 February 15. ^ Cf. p. 377, note, supra. 



382 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

{Enclosure.) 

Receipt for the French Officers. 

I acknowledge to have received from Cap* John Tucker the follow- 
ing Officers in the French Service (viz). 
Jams O'Byrne, Cap* in Clares Reg*. 
Thos Kennedy, Cap^ in Bulkeleys RegS and Baptista Donald his 

servant. 
Felix O'Neille, Capt in Lallys Regt. 
Donald McDonald, Capt Jn the Royal Scotch, and Donald McPherson 

his servant. 
Luke Reynolds, Lieu'^ in the Royal Scotch. 

J. ROMERS, Capt in Barracks. 
Berwick, Feb^y ye 18* 1746/7. 

Endorsed : — In the Earl of Albemarle's 
of Febry. 20, 1746/7. 



CC. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, February 25th 1746/7. 
My Lord, 

I had the honour of your Grace's Letter of the i6th Instant, 
and in Consequence of His Majesty's Commands, met the next morning 
General Huske and the Lord Advocate at the Lord Justice Clerk's, to 
peruse and pick out of the List of Prisoners your Grace sent me, and 
from these committed since, such as Proof can be procured against; 
as this is a work of some time, I shall not be able to transmit to your 
Grace by this Messenger their names, but have desired the Lord 
Justice Clerk and the Lord Advocate to use all the diligence imagin- 
able in collecting the necessary Proofs, and when that is done, the rest 
(according to His Majesty's intention) shall be discharged ; in the 

^ S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 36. No. 40. 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 383 

meantime the Lord Justice Clerk has desired me to acquaint Your 
Grace, that we have it in our power to detain them Prisoners sixty 
days after the expiration of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act,^ 
and even after they have prayed to be set at Liberty.^ 

In relation to the French Prisoners of War, I sent your Grace in 
my Letter of the 20th Instant a receipt from the Officer commanding 
at Berwick for those who went from hence, and shall do the same with 
the rest when I have been able to collect them from Inverness, Glas- 
gow, Irwin, and other Places, distinguishing then in a more particular 
manner those that were born natural Subjects of His Majesty from 
those who are natives of France. 

I shall not trouble your Grace with the various accounts I have 
from the Hills, as it is my real opinion that no Ship has landed either 
Men or Arms upon the Western Coast, and that the Common people, 
notwithstanding the boasting of their Chiefs, have very little hopes of 
any succours from France. 

I have lately heard that Cameron of Torcastle's natural son, who 
is supposed to be come to this Kingdom from England with intelligence, 
was a Lieutenant in the Americans under General Went worth, and beg 
the favour of your Grace to inform yourself of the truth of this Report. 

I have the greatest regard for any advice given me by M^ Campbell 
of Stonefield, and in consequence of his last, of which he sent a Copy 
to the Duke of Argyle, I immediately sent to Glasgow to hire a Wherry 
from 25 to 30 Tuns to procure intelligence from the Isles, and a small 
Boat with Oars to row along the Coast for the same purpose ; but as 
the People to whom the care of these Boats is to be given are to be 
knowing, sensible, and well affected, I have not yet heard that any such 
have been taken into His Majesty's Service ; his Scheme of posting 
small Parties at Island Stalker, Glenco and Strontian is also very 
judicious, and I have sent to those Places to know whether His 
Majesty's Troops can be well accommodated with Quarters and Pro- 
visions, which is the reason that I have [till] now delayed it. 

1 shall talk to day to Lord Loudoun, who arrived last night from 
Inverness, of the possibility of sending detachments to Ross-shire, 

^ It had expired upon February 20. 

2 C/. the Lord Justice-Clerk's letter of February 25 on this matter, infra. Appendix 

No. xxn. 



384 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Cromarty, and Sutherland. I know they can be very well accom- 
modated in those Counties, but I do not chuse to weaken the Highland 
Regiment too much, as they have already one entire Company at 
Bernera and another in Rannoch, and in case of a rising amongst the 
Rebels, the rest might be liable to an Insult at Fort Augustus. 

I have read the Paper the Duke of Montrose has given your Grace ; 
the Parties which he complains of, for driving his Tenants Cattle, were 
sent from Perth by Brigadier Mordaunt in the Month of June last, and 
I am acquainted with the orders they received ; but from the knowledge 
I have of the Country at present, I fear the Duke of Montrose (who 
undoubtedly is one of the most Loyall Subjects His Majesty has) is 
deceived by his Doers, and that they have too great a connection with 
the McGregors and a small Clan under the direction of Robertson of 
Strowan, a most notorious old Rebel. 

Bains, formerly servant to Murray of Broughton, has left Appin 
and is gone into Lochaber with three Athol men, their names unknown; 
diligent search is made after him, and in case he can be got, he shall be 
sent in safe Custody to London according to your Grace's directions. 

The eight Transports are still wanting, but I received a Letter 
yesterday by Express that they rode out the storm in Burlington Bay ; 
the Weather being now mild, I am in hopes they will soon arrive in the 
Firth, when I shall lose no time in embarking the Troops. 

Lord Justice Clerk, to whom I made your Grace's Compliments, 
writes to you by this Messenger to give your Grace a full account of 
the Witnesses that the Earl of Loudoun procured in the North against 
Lord Lovat, and who left Leith on Monday morning last ; ^ that their 
evidence may be strong and sufficient to Punish that old Rogue is the 
sincere desire of 

My Lord, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant, 

ALBEMARLE, 

His Grace The Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed: — Rd. 28*^ (by Jackson). 

i February 23, 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 385 

CCI. 

The Earl of Albemarle to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Febry 28th ly^^. 
My Lord, 

This will be delivered to your Grace by M^ James Mackie, 
minister of the church of S*^ Ninian's near Stirling, which the rebels 
had turned to a magazine for powder and blew it up on the approach of 
His Royal Highness the Duke on the first of February 174^.^ The 
property of part of it belonged to the poor of the parish and yielded 
them a revenue of ^^30 or £"40 Ster. a year. M^ Mackie is recommended 
to me as a very honest and deserving clergyman ; he is to apply by 
petition to His Majesty for a charity brieff in favour of the poor of his 
parish, who have suffer'd by the loss of their property in the church, 
and the addition to the number of their poor by the death of some who 
were killed by the blowing it up, and left widows and orphans to be 
maintained by the parish ; and I recommend him to your Grace's good 
offices with my Lord Chancellor and the Archbishops and such others 
as may be of service to him. 

I am with the greatest respect 
My Lord 
Your Grace's most obedient humble servant 

ALBEMARLE. 
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 

' S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 36. No. 44. 

^ Mr. James Mackie published a considerable account of the blowing up of the Church 
in "Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 221-23, 347. Cf. Appendix, No. XXV. infra. 



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Photogra-iAire by Annan ScSons, from the Portrait hy Sir JosKua Reynolds 



The Albemarle Papers 

Being the Correspondence of 

William Anne, Second Earl of Albemarle 

Commander-in-Chief in Scotland^ 1746- 1747 



With an Appendix of Letters from Andrew Fletcher, Lord 
Justice-Clerk, to the Duke of Newcastle, 1 746-1 748 



Edited with Introduction and Notes 

By 

Charles Sanford Terry, M.A. 

Lecturer in History in the University of Aberdeen 



Volume II. 



Aberdeen 

Printed for the University 

1902 



APPENDIX. 

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE LORD JUSTICE-CLERK. 

1746-1748. 



APPENDIX. 

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE LORD JUSTICE-CLERK. 

1746-1748. 

I. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinr 2"^ July, 1746. 
My Lord Duke, 

I had the honour to acquaint Your Grace on the 29th June 
that the Transports which carried over the Hessians^ were in view, 
and they arrived that night and next morning in the Road of Leith ; as 
I cannot detain the Messenger, I beg leave to enclose copys of S"" 
Everard Fawkeners Letter to me and my answer, to which I beg leave 
to refer, and only add that I have the Honour to be with the utmost 
respect, 

My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 
Endorsed : — Rd. 5. by Brettel. 

^S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bitndle 33. No, 30. "^ Supra, p. 4. 



JQO THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

(Enclosure I.) 
The Lord Justice-Clerk to Sir Everard Fawkener. 

Edinburgh, 30th June 1746. 

Sir, 

Before I had the Honour of His Royal Highness's Com- 
mands by yours of the 26* to be assistant to Major Crawfurd in 
procuring Transports for three BattaHons of foot^ I had notice of the 
arrival of the Transports which carried over the Hessian Troops, and 
had sent for M^ Thames in order to send to you an account of all 
particulars by Express when Major Crawfurd delivered me your letter. 
I kept him till M' Thames came, and I cannot omit observing how 
Critically these Transports arrived to be subserviant to His Royal 
Highness's Commands. I hope greater things shall proceed the same 
way. 

Mr Thames says that Captain Barker received orders to return with 
the Transports to the Firth of Forth without distinction, and therefore 
the whole are returned. They left Williamstadt Tuesday last.^ That 
it will take about the half of these Transports to carry over conveniently 
the three Battalions with their horses. That there are forrage and 
provisions aboard the whole Transports enough for this particular 
service, and has no doubt of any thing but the Beer, which he is to taste 
this night and to-morrow, so that he will be ready to take the Troops 
on board in six days. 

The Gibraltar, who comes with the Transports, is not yet got up to 
the road of Leith and is the only ship of War here. The Bomb was 
ordered for the River, and Captain Knowler with the Bridgewater sailed 
to the Northward upon the fleet being in sight of the Coast of Holland. 
I mention this in case it be thought necessary to have another ship to 
convoy the three Battalions. If any King's ship arrive here I'll endea- 
vour to perswade the Captain to remain here for that service at least 
till His Royal Highness's pleasure be known. I beg leave to assure 
his Royal Highness of the pleasure I take to obey his commands in the 

1 Wolfe's, Sempill's and Pulteney's regiments. They were under orders for Flanders. 
^June 24. 



APPENDIX. 391 

best way I can, and that wherein I fail it must proceed from an error in 
judgement. 

I am &c. 

(Signed) ANDR FLETCHER. 

Mr Murray of Broughton has fallen ill of a feverish distemper in his 
new lodgings.^ 

The Beer can be supplied here. 

Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's of July 2"<^ 1746. 

(Enclosure II.) 

Sir Everard Fawkener to the Lord Justice-Clerk. 

Fort Augustus the 26* June 1746. 
My Lord, 

His Royal Highness having thought fit to appoint Major 
Crawfurd to procure Transports and victual them for the embarkation 
of three Battalions of His Majesty's Troops which are to pass from this 
Country into Holland, and likewise to attend the service of that Em- 
barkation and accompany these Troops, I am commanded by His Royal 
Highness to apply to your Lordship for your assistance, advice and good 
offices to Major Crawfurd in whatever may regard this service, and 
likewise your authority, if it should be necessary to have recourse 
thereto. 

I make no apology for the frequent troubles of this kind which pass 
to you through my hands, because I know the great contentment you 
receive from whatever you can do either towards the public service or 
the particular satisfaction of His Royal Highness. 

I am with unfeigned respect. 

My Lord, 

Your most obedient humble Servant, 

(Signed) EVERARD FAWKENER. 

Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's 
of July 2"<J 1746. 

^ Murray left Edinburgh for London on July 7. Cf. the Lord Justice-Clerk's letter of 
July 10 in Mr. Bell's Memorials of yohn Murray of Broughton, p. 416. 



392 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

II. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Ed"" 12 July 1746. 
My Lord Duke, 

I had the Honour to write to your Grace by last post, and to 
acquaint you of all that passed betwixt M"" Murray and me at Dumbar, 
and that I left him in a good disposition.^ 

I also mentioned Lord Kellie's offer to surrender and transmitted a 
Copy of his Letter to me.^ I have now the honour to acquaint Your 
Grace, that yesterday the Earl Kellie did render himself to me, in terms 
of the late Act of Attainder, whereupon I committed him prisoner to the 
Castle of Edinburgh till thence liberated by due course of the Law, of 
all which I beg leave, as the Law directs, to inform your Grace as his 
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State. 

I have enclosed a Copy of the Intelligence I received from Grenock 
of some of the Rebel Officers having on the last day of June landed at 
Morlaix in France. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect 

My Lord Duke 

Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 

I send enclosed a Specimen of the Report to be made of the 
Prisoners that have been in Arms ; a separate List is making out of the 
names and additions of the witnesses as they apply to each Rebel 
prisoner. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 18. 

1 S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 33. No. 41. 

"^ The letter is printed in Bell, Memorials of John Murray, pp. 416 et seq. 

^ Cf. Bell, ibid., p. 420. 



APPENDIX. 393 

(Enclosure I.) 

Intelligence. 

From Greenock I am well informed that on the 10*^ instant arrived 
there the Elizabeth of Glasgow, James Orr Master, from Moirlaix in 
France, which place he left the i^t instant. Arrived at that place an 
Irish Whirrie, Rais'd and deck'd from the Highlands. M' Orr and the 
Master of a Dutch Ship going to Town in their Boats, the people of the 
Sloop called to them to put alongside, which they did, and immediately 
Eight Gentlemen came on board the two boats, with some baggage, one 
Cloakbag, which by its weight he supposed to be money ; he asked the 
Gentlemen what news they had, as he supposed they were lately from 
Scotland. They answered, none good for themselves, tho' they might 
possibly be other ways for him, as he was from Glasgow, and mentioned 
the defeat of the Rebels.^ Did not seem fond of much conversation 
with him, but talked mostly French amongst themselves. Affected to 
be very merry, and in the passage to Town sung many Jacobite Songs, 
and frequently a Begging we will go. Did not name one another. As 
soon as they landed at Moirlaix were waited upon by several French, 
Irish Gentlemen. They had a Stornoway Highland man on board, 
whom they had pressed away for a pilot, and as they asked after one 
Barber, Master of a Ship from Irvin, 'tis probably the Sloop which took 
Barber and carried into Lochbroom the 6* June last. M"" Orr knows 
nothing of the Brest Squadron or their design further than 'twas 
reported in France they were sometime sailed. One of the Gentlemen 
on board the Dutch boat had more regard paid him than the others, 
but as he appeared to be a Man about 40 years could not be the young 
Chevalier.^ While M^ Orr was there an advice boat going to Admiral 
Martin with orders was taken by a French Privateer and brought into 
Moirlaix with some Merchant ships. 

Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's 
of July 12, 1746. 

1 At Culloden. 

^ According to the Scots Magazine (vol. viii., p. 340), the people of Morlaix on seeing 
the officers " cried Vive le Roy, imagining the pretender's son to have been among them ". 

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Appendix. 395 

III. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh 14th July, 1746. 
My Lord Duke, 

This Evening I had the Honour of your Grace's Letter of 
the ii^h signifying his Majesty's Commands, that all such persons as 
are confined in any of the Prisons in Scotland on account of their having 
been taken in Arms, or of having personally joined those that were in 
Arms, should be forthwith sent under a sufficient Guard to Carlisle in 
order to take their Tryal, and that I should transmit to M^ Philip 
Carteret Web such Evidence as shall have been procured against them ; 
taking particular care that the Witnesses that shall be sent to give 
evidence be able to prove that they had seen the prisoners do some 
Hostile Act, on the Part of the Rebels, or marching with the Rebel 
Army. 

In my Letter of the 16^^' of May, I had the honour to acquaint 
your Grace of the orders I had then sent to the several Sheriffs and 
Magistrates of Burghs, pursuant to His Majesty's commands to me by 
your Grace's Letter of the 12* of May, to transmit to me Lists of the 
Prisoners for Treason in their several Goals, with an account of the 
Evidences and proofs that can be brought against them ; such lists 
have been sent me by the greatest part of the Sheriffs, but as 
they were Bulky and the Evidence very perplext and imperfect, 
against many no evidence at all, against others none but the 
prisoners own Confessions when examined, and others had not been 
in Arms or joined personally with the Rebel Army, Therefore that 
I might be the sooner able to obey your Grace's Commands of the y^ 
Instant of sending to your Grace exact Lists of all such prisoners as 
were taken in Arms, I put these Lists sent me into the hands of his 
Majesty's Solicitors, with orders to make up from the whole such a 
list as your Grace desired of, which I had the honour to acquaint your 
Grace on this lo'^'i- The Solicitors have not yet quite finished that 
task, but it will be finished very soon, and then there will be no difficulty 
that I can forsee in sending the prisoners to Carlisle. 

1 S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 33. No. 46. 



^g6 THE ALSEMARLfe PAPfekS. 

But with respect to the manner of my sending up the witnesses, 
there is a difficulty, and which I mentioned to your Grace in my Letter 
of March the 27*- The Witnesses are very numerous, and I dare say 
few of them will be willing to make a journey to Carlisle to give 
Evidence against the Prisoners, and I doubt if I have authority to take 
all these witnesses into custody, and to send them likewise Prisoners to 
Carlisle, and yet without some such compulseture I easyly forsee that 
the proof must be exceeding defective ; it is indeed very probable that 
my doubt is chiefly owing to my being so little acquainted with the 
methods of proceedings in England in trials for High Treason, and if 
that is the case, I hope your Grace will not only have the goodness to 
forgive me, but also to set me right. But if the difficulty in Law is 
truly such as I apprehend it, in that case I must leave it to your Grace 
to find out the proper remedy, and in the mean time how soon the 
Solicitors shall have finished the Lists, I shall send orders to the Sheriffs 
and Magistrates to send the Prisoners hither with such Witnesses as 
are willing, and give the best directions I can think of for perswadeing 
those who are unwilling, without transgressing what I apprehend to be 
the law. 

I had the honour to transmit to your Grace Copys of the Reports 
I had from the Sheriff of Aberdeen and Kincairden, which were the 
exactest I received. 

I have reason to think that S^ Everard Fawkener is collecting what 
Evidence he can, tho' I do not know if it is yet finished. I sent him 
this night a copy of your Grace's Letter and he will be able to judge, as 
well as I can do, both what prisoners and what witnesses ought to be 
sent, and possibly there may be the same difficulty there that I have 
here to send those witnesses that are not willing to go, and even here 
perhaps the difficulty would not be so great if the same remedy were at 
hand. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 

P.S. — I delayed sending this Letter till I could consult with L,^ 
President and others of my bretheren here about the difficulty in send- 



APPENDIX. 397 

ing y^ Witnesses, but thereby my difficultys instead of being removed 
are increased. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. ig. by Express. 



IV. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Ed' 15 July 1746. 
My Lord Duke, 

The Vessel which carried the Rebels to Bergen is returned 
and seized with Weymss the Master by the Officer commanding at 
Stonehaven ; a Sailor who landed at Arbroth is seized with 13 Letters 
which are sent to his Royal Highness the Duke.^ 

I have this moment accounts from Luss [?] that all the McGregors 
have agreed to surrender at the Kings mercy, of which I have given 
notice to Brig"" General Mordaunt who commands at Perth. 
I have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 

My Ld Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Lovat I hear is to be at Sterling ye 19th on his way to y^ Tower. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 19*^ by Express. 

^ S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 33. No. 47. 

^ About the beginning of May thirteen Jacobites, among whom were said to be Lord 
Ogilvy and David Graham of Duntroon, boarded Captain James Wemyss's ship in the Tay and 
were carried to Bergen. They sent letters from thence to Scotland by the ship on its return 
voyage. Wemyss and his crew were committed to gaol. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 
240, 340. 



398 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

V. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, 26 July 1746. 

My Lord Duke, 

I can now at last send your Grace some account of Rebel 
Prisoners in the several Goals in this Country that are to be sent to 
Carlyle, pursuant to his Majesty's Commands, which I had the honour 
to receive by your Grace's letter of the ii^^ current. The number of 
the whole is 126 persons, whereof there are 34 that were either con- 
sidered here as in the rank of Gentlemen, or were employed as officers 
in the Rebel Army, and of these I have enclosed a list of their names 
and designations and commissions or offices in the Rebel Army. The 
other 92 are Private men, and I did not think it worth the troubling 
your Grace with a List or Roll of their names. The Judge Advocate, 
Mr Bruce, has not yet quite finished the examination that he has for 
some time been employed in by S"" Everard Fawkener, but he is expected 
soon here, and it is possible that when he arrives I may be able to add 
to the List more Rebels against whom he has got evidence. But in 
the meantime I have sent orders to Aberdeen, to send under a Guard to 
this place the prisoners in that Goal against whom there seems to be 
sufficient evidence, because that is the most distant place from which 
I have got any account of the prisoners and the evidence against them, 
and they were to set out from thence as yesterday. The List of Wit- 
nesses that prove against these 126 prisoners consists of no less than 
134, and I want your Grace's answer to my Letter of the 14th, which 
I hope will bring me your Grace's directions in what manner they can 
be sent ; it is not impossible but upon a review of the evidence the 
number of the witnesses may be a little diminished, where 4 or 5 
witnesses prove against the same person, and yet I am perswaded that 
very few of that number can be spared, because even in that case, the 
whole are for the most part necessary against some other of the 
prisoners. 

I imagine it will also be useful for the Crowns Lawyers in manage- 

1 S. P. Scotlatid, Geo. II. Bundle 33. No. 55. 



APPENDIX. 



399 



ing the Tryals to have the assistance of some of these that were 
employed in taking the Examinations of the witnesses, therefore I 
intend to send along with the prisoners M"" Solicitor Homes Clerk and 
one Mr Gray, who were both employed in that service ; and an Inter- 
preter of the Irish Language will be absolutely necessary and I shall 
send one ^ for that purpose. 

After all these prisoners shall be sent away a great many will still 
remain in our Goals, whereof several are undoubtedly guilty, even by their 
own confessions, and against others there is one witness and no more, 
but it would be to no purpose to send them to Carlyle, because we have 
as yet got no other evidence against them. Therefore your Grace will 
please direct me how to dispose of them. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 

My Lord Duke 

Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 29 by Express. 

(Enclosure.) 

List of Rebels Against whom there is Proof Above the 
Rank of Private Men. 

Donald McDonald of Kinloch Moydart. 

Donald McDonald of Teinadrish, Major. 

Robert Taylor, Shoemaker in Edinburgh, Captain. 

James Harvie, Innkeeper at Bridgeend of Linlithgow, Quarterm''. 

Thomas Robertson, Journeyman Goldsmith in Edinburgh. 

William Gray, Surgeon's Mate. 

Robert Randall, Excise Officer, Quartermaster. 

Charles Spalding of Whitefield. 

Patrick Murray, Goldsmith in Stirling. 

James Murray, Surgeon. 

Robert Murray, Writer in Edinburgh. 

1 Patrick Campbell. 



400 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

John Martine at Gordon's Miln, Ensign.- 

Alex' Pearson, Shipmaster in Aberbrothick. 

James Duff of Torphies, Younger. 

James Innes, late in Cullen. 

Francis Buchanan of Arnpryor. 

Thomas Buchanan, brother to Arnpryor. 

Patrick Buchanan of Spitle, brother to Do. 

Thomas Blair, Fewar in Gartmore. 

James Stewart, late Gentleman to the Duke of Perth, Major. 

Archibald M^Lauchlane, Merchant in Maryburgh, Ensign. 

David Home, brother to Home of Manderston. 

William Home. 

James Drummond of Gatherlees. 

Robert Wright, son to James Wright, Writer in Edinburgh. 

James Thoirs, son to Gilbert Thoirs, Writer in Edinburgh. 

James Smith, Writer in Edinburgh. 

Sir Archibald Primrose of Dunipace. 

Mungo Graham, Writer in Edinburgh, a Commissary. 

Alexander Dalmahoy, son to Sir Alexander Dalmahoy. 

Peter Lindsay, late Tenant in Wester Dean house, brother to 

Lindsay of Woringston, Lieu* in the Rebel Army. 
Charles Gordon of Tarpersie. 
George Steel, Merchant in Aberdeen. 
Mr Robert Lyon, Minister of a Nonjuring Meeting and Chaplain to 

Lord Ogilvie's Rebel Regiment. 
Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's 
of July 26, 1746. 

VL 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Ed' 27 July, 1746. 

In the morning. 
My Lord Duke, 

Since writing to your Grace of yesternight's date, I have 
intelligence that on Wednesday senight the Pretender's son got over 
1 S, p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 33. No, 57. 



APPENDIX. 401 

the Hill of Morar, in Lochaber, where he was received by Lochgerrie 
with 80 men in arms, who conducted him into Badenoch. Orders are 
sent every where to preserve a strict Imbargo along the coast, and to 
seize and secure every where all suspected persons, so that I am in good 
hopes that the Pretender's son shall not get off.^ 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect 

My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 30. 



VIL 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, 7th Aug. 1746. 

My Lord Duke, 

Last Monday night I had the honour of your Grace's Letter 
of the first instant, together with a copy of the Attorney General's 
Letter to your Grace of the 22"«i of July, which rather increases than 
removes my difiicultys how to send from this country unwilling wit- 
nesses against the Prisoners that are to be sent to Carlisle. But there 
is no help for it, the Law in that matter stands, it seems, as I appre- 
hended it did, and all that remains to me is to endeavour the best I can 
to follow the directions your Grace has given me. 

By the examinations that have been taken there are several of the 
Prisoners who at the same time they acknowledge their own guilt do 
likewise give evidence against their fellow Prisoners, and in so far, that 
difficulty ceases. It is not at all impossible that the prospect of an 
approaching Trial may persuade others of them to be more ingenious, 
and I do not know but a good Solicitor may among the Prisoners them- 
selves find a sufficient number of witnesses to convict all the rest ; 
therefore I have resolved to send up the whole Prisoners against whom 

^ Cf. p. 17 (note), SHpva. "^S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 3. 

eee 



402 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

there is a moral certainty of their being guilty, either because they have 
acknowledged it and signed their confession, or because one or more 
witnesses in this country have given evidence against them, though I 
should not be able to persuade these witnesses to go to Carlisle. 

Some of the witnesses against the Prisoners are employed either in 
the Excise or Customs, and as to these I have applied to the Commis- 
sioners, and make no doubt they will have influence to persuade these 
witnesses to go to Carlisle ; others of the witnesses are private men in 
the Army, and I have applied to their commanding Officers to send them 
to Carlisle. Two of the material witnesses are servants of the Town of 
Aberdeen, that is. Town Serjeants,^ and I have wrote to the Magistrates 
desiring that they be forth with sent to Carlisle and to call here for 
money to defray the Expence of their journey, and I doubt not they will 
comply. But as to the other witnesses, as I have not yet been made 
acquainted with their several inclinations, the only method I can think 
of is, writing to the respective Sheriifs and Magistrates to send to this 
place the Witnesses in their several Countys, a list of whose names is 
sent them, in order to be further Examined by the Crowns Lawyers or 
by me, on pretence that without such examinations a distinct report 
cannot be made. I have accordingly wrote in these terms by Express 
to all the Sheriffs and Magistrates where I thought it useful, and to 
such other persons as I thought had interest or influence over the 
Witnesses, and in a few days I shall be better able to inform your Grace 
what witnesses are willing to go to Carlisle and how far the evidence 
seems to be compleat, and shall as your Grace has directed me send to 
Mr Philip Carteret Webb Copys of the Examinations of all the Prisoners 
and the Declarations of the Witnesses taken against them. 

I have just now advice from Aberdeen of some abuses committed 
there on the first of this month by the Troops,^ the occasion whereof 
was that the Officers of the Army wanted to have public rejoicings that 
day, being the anniversary of the accession of the Royal family to the 
Throne, and accordingly the Bells were rung in the same manner as is 
usual on days of rejoicings. But it seems no orders had been given 
for Illuminations, and as there were none in former years, the inhabi- 
tants or the greatest part of them neglected to have any at this time, 
and the soldiers supposing that it proceeded from disaffection, broke all 

^Cf. p. igs, supra, ^Cf. 'No. XXV., etc., supra. 



Appendix. 40^ 

the windows, the Timber as well as the Glass, to a considerable value, 
and it is said that they did it by the order of some Officer. I have not 
yet got so distinct account of this affair as to pretend to inform your 
Grace of the particulars, but I hope it will not be so bad as the first 
account seems to make it. 

It gives me great uneasyness to hear so many complaints made of 
the Army ; several were made in form to the Court of Session ^ of 
Officers having seized and disposed of the goods and effects of innocent 
persons under pretence of seizing the Rebels effects, or of carrying away 
the effects of persons said to be in the Rebellion, to the disappointment 
of their Landlords rents, or of their Creditors who had in the Forms of 
Law attached them. I did not think these matters of importance 
enough to mention them to your Grace, and I do it now only in 
Obedience to your Grace's Commands to acquaint you of every thing 
material that passes in this Country. The Court of Session ordered 
that the persons complained on should be served with Copys of the 
Complaints, and that they should put in answers within a time limited. 
It happened luckily that the Officer first complained of justified himself 
to the satisfaction of the Court, and they awarded full costs against the 
complainer.^ But the Gentleman next complained of. Captain Hamil- 
ton of St. George's Regiment of Dragoons, neglected to put in answers 
and therefore the Court of Session gave a Warrant to commit him to 
prison till he find Bail to put in answers against the ist of November 
the next Term, and to pay such damages as shall be decreed against 
him.^ 

But what gave me the greatest concern was a Complaint made to 
the Court of Justiciary by the Magistrates of Stirling and two inhabi- 
tants of that Town of a very atrocious Riot,* as it was represented, and 
said to be committed by Lieutenant Colonel Howard, of Gen^ Howard's 
Regiment, and two subaltern Officers on these two inhabitants, a periwig 
maker and his apprentice. They sued that Colonel Howard (after they 
were beat by the soldiers) caused the Apprentice to be tyed to Halberts 
and whipt by some of his drums, and therefore prayed for a warrant to 

^ Several of these are enumerated in Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 343 ct seq. 
2 This refers to the case of Quartermaster Nathaniel Cooke. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. 
viii., pp. 343, 345- 

^ Many letters on this case are printed supra. Cf. Index. ■*€/. supra, p. 210, note 3. 



404 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

commit the Col. and the other two Officers to Prison until they should 
find Bail ; about the same time 1 had advice that the Regiment was 
ordered to march to Carlisle under the command of Colonel Howard, 
and therefore it was not thought proper summarily to give such 
a Warrant without further evidence than the information, and orders 
were given by the Court of Justiciary that a Precognition should be first 
taken and laid before the Court, which has not yet been done, and 
therefore I cannot yet with any certainty say how the Complaint was 
founded ; it was unlucky that General Bland was then upon command 
at Bruntisland when this affair happened ; how soon he heard of it 
from the Magistrates he wrote a very proper and a very sensible Letter 
to them, and is now, as I am told, endeavouring to get [it] compromised. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect 

My Ld Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble serv^ 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Duke of Newcastle. 



VHI. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinbr g* Aug. 1746. 
P.S. 

I was prevented sending my Letter by the post of the date, 
through the hurry I have been in in giving the necessary directions for 
sending off the Prisoners and witnesses from this and other places to 
Carlisle ; about 140 prisoners set out from this place yesterday for 
Carlisle, whereof above 25 have agreed to be evidence, and at least 30 
other witnesses have set out already from this place for Carlisle. This 
day the prisoners and witnesses set out from Perth, and to-morrow 
another party set out from Stirling, the last division from Montrose and 
Dundee I have not yet heard of the day they set out. This will be a 
very expensive^ affair. I have given them money to carry them to M"" 
Philip Carteret Webb, who I suppose is enabled to take care of them 
afterwards ; several of the Witnesses who are examined have stept out 

1 S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 6. 



APPENDIX. 405 

of the way, and more ma}^ probably do so if they meet with bad com- 
pany ; however, all shall be done that is in my power, and I believe 
there will be evidence against a great many. Two Lawyers of great 
practice, M"" Alex^ Lockhart and M^ James Fergusson, I am told go to 
Carlisle for the Rebels with 3 Solicitors. 

By Lord Albemarle's Letter to me, of which I send your Grace a 
copy, I hope to get all Complaints soon sopited. I have enclosed a 
copy of my answer^ chiefly that your Grace may see what answer I 
have made about Glengary, and shall be glad it meet with Your 
Grace's Approbation. 

The news I sent your Grace from Arasaig is not conlirmed. I send 
your Grace a copy of M^ Anderson's Journal, who is Aid de Camp to 
Majr Gen' Campbell. I think we have lost scent of the Pretender's 
Son since H.R.H. left us, so that I begin to suspect that he is either 
got off by sea or perished at Land. 

Endorsed: — Rd. 13. by Express. 

(Enclosure I.) 

Information against Glengarry. 

We the under Subscribers do unanimously vow, declare and 
swear that John McDonald of Glengary being our Superior, of whom 
we hold our lands and possessions, did associate himself to the Cheva- 
lier's Son's party after his landing, and notwithstanding that he received 
a sum of money to bestow upon the raising of us and all other persons 
fensable men within his Estate and following, kept that sum to him- 
self and obliged us, our Tenants, dependers, and all others of his Estate 
at our own expence to raise, march and support ourselves until we 
joined the Chevalier's Son's Standard. He then contrary to his faith 
and promise absenting, sent his son Angus "^ to command us, his eldest 
son 2 being then still in France. He settled the Stations and Posts in 
his Regiment, which some grumbling at in some time left the Regiment. 
When the first desertion began in the Highland Army he stationed his 

1 It is printed supra, No. LXIII. 

^ He was accidentally killed at Falkirk after the battle. 

' Young Glengarry. Cf. p. 86, note 4, supra. 



4o6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

brother Ronald in the one side of his Estate, himself in the other, to ex- 
ecute the Severest Cruelties upon any [who] would return to their homes. 
Ronald was to burn the houses and destroy the effects of all {who] 
would come to Knoidart, Abertarff and Achadrom. This kept Glengary's 
Regiment the fullest and the best in the field over what they travelled 
in England and Scotland, and for the Private men's encouragement he 
discharged them a year's rent, which he drew, and as much more, in 
name of said rents from the Chevalier's Son's Coffers. His Son Angus 
being killed by accident in the Town of Falkirk, he sent James his first 
Son by the Second Marriage, tho' still too young to command the Regi- 
ment, but under the Management of Lochgary. And when the Govern- 
ment Forces marched over Spey ^ there was neither young or old, such 
as formerly left at home as not fit for long marches, but he forced out 
to the action of Culloden, and after he surrendered the first part of the 
Arms of the Country of Glengary, sent to M^ Murray of Broughton to 
Invermalie to give him a sum of money and he would still keep a body 
of his men in that Service. Now we humbly beg our cause be heard, 
being obliged by the Superiority over us to rise in Arms, and if allowed 
will prove what we represent and a great deal more of it by write. We 
beg leave to offer, if it be his Majesty's and Government's will to show 
us any respite or pardon, that we will conform ourselves to their pleasure, 
serve them faithfully in all times to come and to do whatever will be 
directed to us. 

This is written and signed by us at Glenlouh the sixteenth of July, 
one thousand seven hundred and fourty six years. 

/Col. McDonnell of Barisdile. 
John McDonnell Son to Scothouse. 
Donald M^Donell of Lundie. 
(Signed) Ronald McDonell of Shian. 

Alexr McDonell of Ochtera. 
Allan M^Donell Son to Scothouse. 
\Don M^Donell Cousin to Ardnabie. 
A True Copy 
(Signed) J. Roper. 

Endorsed : — Sent to the Earl of Albemarle, Aug. 1746. 

In Ld Justice Clerk's Letter 

of Aug. 7 & 9, 1746. 

^ In April, 1746. 



APPENDIX. 407 

(Enclosure II.) 
The Earl of Albemarle to the Lord Justice-Clerk. 

Fort Augustus, Aug* 5th 1746. 

My Lord, 

I apprehended yesterday the Laird of Glengary on the 
information of which I send your Lordship enclosed a Copy. As this 
accusation is signed by people in actual Rebellion I know no way of 
coming at them to examine them upon oath [except] by granting them 
a protection for their persons for a number of days sufficient for that 
purpose. I beg your advice hereupon. 

I am very sorry that Captain Hamilton of the Dragoons has gone 
too far in the Execution of his office, according to the printed paper sent 
me by Sir Everard Fawkener ; as his Zeal for Flis Majesty's Service has 
perhaps been the cause of it I hope your Lordship will find means to get 
both partys to agree. 

I heard this morning that some little Fray has happened at Aber- 
deen between some soldiers and some of the inhabitants on account of 
the rejoiceings on the first day of this month, which we frequently 
Solemnize in England, being the day (Your Lordship knows) of this 
present Royal Family's accession to the Throne. As both partys may 
be to blame I hope this may also be stifled, and that for the future 
Civil and Military powers may agree in every point, which I daresay is 
your desire and the sincere wish of 

My Lord, 
Your Lordships most obedient Servant 

(Signed) ALBEMARLE. 
Lord Justice Clerk. 

Endorsed : — In L,^ Justice Clerk's Letter 
of Aug* 7 & 9, 1746. 

(Enclosure III.) 

The Journal of Mr Anderson Aid-de-Camp to General 

Campbell. 

The i2':h [of July, 1746] being cruizing off Rasay, Cap* Ferguson 
returned with the Laird of M^Kinnon and Cameron the Priest, brother 



408 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

to Lochiel (who had been taken in Morar by Capt M^Niel) and Cap* 
John M^Kinnon with two of the men who carried over the young Pre- 
tender from Sky to Morar. From these prisoners we learned that the 
Young Pretender left Skye the 4* and that the 6th or 7th he left the 
place in Morar by Loch Navis where they landed ; they said he was 
gone Southward.^ This day also Cap*^ Hudson arrived with Letters 
from the Duke to General Campbell. 

The 13th Sir Alexander Mcdonald came on board, having accom- 
panied Cap* Hudson from Fort Augustus, and the General having given 
Capt Hudson a letter for the Duke with what intelligence we had of the 
Pretender's being got off to the Continent, he and Sir Alexander set out 
for Fort Augustus ; ^ and then we made sail for Garloch, where we 
arrived about 6 o'Clock the same Evening expecting here to meet the 
Greyhound with provisions. 

The 14th we got information that some persons were concealed in a 
Cave near Aplecross, upon which orders were given to Cap*^ Ferguson, 
Lieu* Gachen and Lieu^ Hope with 30 Sailors and what Fuzileers we 
had in the Cutter and Wherries to go in quest of them, but the wind 
being calm they could not sail till the 15*^ about 4 in the morning. 
They returned the 17th having taken none of the Rebels, but took a ten 
oar'd boat that attended them. 

The same day we got information that a French Vessel had been 
in Lochbroom and the 14* had landed some officers, that two of these 
landed were gone from the Ship and that they were made prisoners. 
As there was reason to suspect that said ship might still be near the 
same place, we proposed sailing in the evening in quest of her, but it 
was quite calm, so that we could not get out of the harbour or bay of 
Garloch. 

The i6th the said two prisoners, one a French man, the other of 
Irish extraction, both reformed Lieu^s in the French Service, were 
brought aboard ; we could get nothing material from them further than 
that they came from Dunkirk about the 30*^^ May last with about 16 
Gentlemen (Officers) ; that the vessel was called the [sic] ; ^ they were 

1 The information furnished by the Mackinnons, who had accompanied the Prince from 
Skye to the mainland, was correct. 

^ Probably to take leave of the Duke of Cumberland, who left Fort Augustus on July i8. 

"* From another passage at the end of this Journal it appears that the ship was the Bien 
Trouvee. Cf. supra, p. 46, note i. 



APPENDIX. 409 

victualled for two months but they had orders not to return till they had 
orders for that purpose from the Prince (as they termed him), from 
whence it is easy to judge their business was to carry off the Young 
Pretender. The General sent out some persons to get intelligence of 
the French Brig, and this morning (the 17th) they returned with advice 
that the said vessel was in Lochbroom the ii^h at four in the afternoon, 
we therefore got under sail in quest of her. 

The same day we embarked what Officers and men we had in the 
Cutter and Wherries to go into Lochbroom ; they returned the 19th with 
advice that the French Vessel had left Lochbroom Sunday the [is]*^*^. 

N.B. — This day therefore Cap*^ Ferguson went himself for further 
information and returned at night with nothing more than a confirma- 
tion of what we heard before, viz^ that two French Vessels had sailed 
the 12th past ; he brought off with him some Cows for fresh provisions 
for His Majesty's Ship. 

This day the Greyhound brought 14 days provisions for the Furnace 
and made sail in the Evening for Barahead. We were also joined 
about the same time by the Glasgow who is ordered to cruize from 
Stornoway to Farohead. 

The 2oth we made sail for Aple Cross Bay in order to meet a 
Wherrie we had sent to Mingary Castle for letters, we got into the Bay 
about 8 at night. 

The 2ist Lamont arrived in his Wherrie with Letters from the 
Duke, &c., for General Campbell. 

The 22"^ lay becalmed in Aplecross Bay but ordered out one of the 
Wherries to land M^ Russell on Sky from whence he was to go to Uist 
to order off the command left on that Island with Capt Campbell of 
Skipness, only to leave an Officer and some of the Independent Com- 
panys to take care of Lady Clan Ronald. 

The zy^ made sail for Kenlochnadael, but the wind being contrary 
we could not get through the narrows till the 24th. 

The 26* Capt Campbell of Skipness arrived with the Command and 
prisoners from South Uist, viz' O'Neil, Allan Mcdonald, the Young Pre- 
tender's Confessor, another priest and four other prisoners. 

The 27th made sail for Lochnanua, but the wind being contrary 
were obliged to put into a harbour in Canna where we searched the 
Baillies house again for papers &c. — here we spoke with the Raven 

FFF 



4IO THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Sloop of War, and learned from the Captain that the French Brig we 
had been in quest of was taken off Loch Broom by the Glasgow, but she 
had landed all the French Officers she had on board. ^ 

The 28* in the evening made sail from Canna for Lochnanua, 
where we arrived the 29* in the morning and joined Lieut. Col. Camp- 
bell who lay there with his command, with which and those we have 
brought with us we are now preparing to search all the country about 
Lochmorar, where there are a great many Caves and Subterraneous 
places in which Lochiel and a good many of the Rebel Chiefs were con- 
cealed sometime past and narrowly escaped Cap' Ferguson when he was 
in that country. 

General Campbell has made Old Clan Ronald prisoner, having 
discovered from some papers and letters seized in South Uist that he 
has been guilty of some treasonable practices. 

Endorsed : — Journal, M^ Anderson, to the 28th July 1746. 
In Ld Justice Clerk's 
of Aug. 7 & 9 1746. 



IX. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Ed', II Aug. 1746. 
My Lord Duke, 

M"^ David Bruce, who delivers this, was employed by His 
Royal Highness as Judge Advocate of the Army under his Command, 
and by instructions from H.R.H. containing ample powers he visited all 
the prisons betwixt this and Inverness, and examined the prisoners 
committed for Treason or suspicion of Treason and made his report to 
me, which Examinations are now sent to Carlysle along with the other 
examinations taken by his Majesty's Solicitors and Sheriffs, Magistrates, 
&c. 

By Mr Bruce's instructions he is thereafter ordered to repair to 

^This conflicts with M. Dudepet's statement, supra, p. 46. 
^S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 7. 



Appendix. 41 1 

London and there present himself to your Grace. I advised him to go 
by Carlisle that he might inform your Grace of what is doing there. 
I am with the utmost respect, 
My Lord Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble serv* 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 22 (by Mr Bruce). 

X. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, 14 Aug. 1746. 
My Lord Duke, 

I can now acquaint your Grace that all the prisoners and 
witnesses are at Carlisle or on the road to it. The last division of 
them, who arrived yesterday from the North at this place, set out this 
morning for Carlisle. The whole prisoners sent are about 270, and the 
number of the witnesses who I have one way or other prevailed on to go 
to Carlisle are about 160, exclusive of about 30 of the prisoners who have 
already agreed to be witnesses, and no doubt more of them will speak 
if properly applied as the danger approaches ; besides the persons I 
formerly mentioned sent along to take care of the prisoners and wit- 
nesses, I found it necessary to send M'' James Fauld to conduct those 
who came in the last Detachment from Angus ; this Gentleman was 
very assistant to me in rescuing our officers taken at Preston. 

This whole affair has been very troublesome and difficult to manage, 
and nothing but his Majesty's service and your Grace's commands 
could have engaged me in it. However, I have wrought through and 
done the best I could, and my Friends have supported me, notwith- 
standing the ridiculous cry that prevails, rendering all those who bear 
witness to the truth in the service of their country odious by the name 
of Informers, and taking all indirect methods to spirit away witnesses, 
and deter them or seduce them from telling truth. 

' S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 10. 



4i2 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

I have nothing else material to acquaint your Grace of, no news of 
the Pretender's son, though he was once in such difficulties that he was 
deliberating about delivering himself up.^ We are sometimes employed 
in seizing a Rebel, sometimes in spoiling complaints, which begin to 
abate and I hope will be soon entirely prevented by the wise conduct of 
the Earl of Albemarle, who is expected at Stirling on the 20*. General 
Bland has settled Col. Howard's affair at Stirling with great address. 
I paved the way for him.^ 

Your Grace will before now have heard of the arrival of the Trans- 
ports in Holland, for they had a constant fair wind from the day they 
sailed. 

The Rebels who landed at Bergen are arrived at Gottenburgh. 
By ship's news from Bourdeaux, a report prevailed there that 7 or 8000 
were in arms from that place to Rochelle, but that they had no Leader 
nor no Officers ; perhaps they look for Gen^ Sinclair. 

I have the honour on all occasions to be with the utmost respect, 
My Lord Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 

I send enclosed a list of the Volumes of Declarations, Examinations, 
etc., sent to Carlisle. Lord Albemarle's Letter of y^ 12*^3 from Fort 
Augustus says, that the badness of the weather, cloths and Tents being 
worn out, and having no intelligence of the Pretender's Son, obliges him 
to march from thence next day, and that after having settled the Troops 
in their quarters at Perth and Stirling and other places, his Lop is to 
set out for Edinburgh ; that Lord Loudoun was then with part of his 
Highlanders at Fort Augustus, and was to proceed in searching for the 
Pretender's Son. By a Letter from the Sheriff of Argyle of the same 
date from Inverara, Major-Gen^ Campbell continues on the Coast of 
Lorn ; that Colonel Campbell was gone from Strontian to the head of 
Locharkaig, upon information that the Pretender's Son was lurking 

1 This statement appears in Captain Felix O'Neil's narrative, supra, p. 75. 

"^ Supra, p. 403. 

s Cf. No. LXXIL, supra. 



APPENDIX. 413 

there, where he was to meet Lord Loudoun with a command from Fort 
Augustus. 

Duke of Newcastle, 
Endorsed : — Rd. 20. 

(Enclosure.) 

Inventory of Precognitions, Reports and other papers sent 
TO Carlisle, by Mr Patrick Henderson. 

1. Precognition taken at Perth by Solicitor Home. 

2. Precognition taken by Do at Edinburgh. 

3. Report, Sheriffs of Aberdeen. 

4. Precognition, Sheriffs of Stirling, with four papers enclosed. 

5. Report, Sheriffs of Edinb"^, with Add, Report enclosed. 

6. Report from Kincardine. 

7. Copy Minutes of Solicitor Haldamot and M"^ Miller's proceedings at 

Perth. 

8. Report, Sheriffs of Elgin. 

9. Report, Sheriffs of Dumbarton. 

10. Report from Banff. 

11. Report from Haddington, 

12. Report from Musleburgh. 

13. Report from Dumfries. 

14. Report, Shr. of Linlithgow, 

15. Report, the Stewart of Annan, 

16. Precog. by Solc^ Haldane concerning Neil Campbell. 

17. Report from Dumfermling. 

18. Precog. Sh. of Lanerk. 

19. Report, the Managers of Montrose. 

20. Report, Provost of Arbroath. 

21. Report taken at Montrose by Sh. of Forfar. 

22. Do. 

23. Two separate Reports by the Sh, of Forfar, 

24. Report from Stonehaven by M"^ Bruce &c. 

25. Report from Arbroath by M^ Bruce. 

26. Report from Montrose by Do. 



414 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

27. List of Rebel prisoners who carried Arms. 

28. Alphabetical List of Witnesses. 

29. Bundle of Witnesses Declarations. 

30. Report from Dundee by M^ Bruce. 

31. Report, Baillies of Dundee. 

32. Precognition taken at Dunkeld. 

33. Buchanan of Arnpryor's letters. 

34. Confessions and declarations taken by M^ Bruce at Stirling. 

35. Do taken at Aberdeen in presence Lop Ancrum. 
More carried by George Miller, Sheriff depu* of Perth. 
Alphabetical list of Rebel prisoners in the several Goals in North 

Britain. 
List of prisoners in the several Goals that were in the French 

Service. 
List of Rebel prisoners and of the Witnesses subjoined to each 

Rebel's name. 
Alphabetical list of the said Witnesses. 
Alphabetical list of the names of all the said Rebels. 
Examinations of Rebels taken at Perth in February and March 

1746 by Mr Patrick Haldane and George Miller, and an abstract 

of their Confessions. 
Examinations of Rebels taken since that time by the said George 

Miller and an Abstract of their Confessions. 
Alphabetical list of the Rebels. 

Precognitions of Witnesses taken by the said George Miller. 
Endorsed : — In L^ Justice Clerk's Letter 
of Aug. 14, 1746. 

XL 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh 14 August 1746. 
My Lord Duke, 

As Lord Sommervelle was one of the few of his Majesty's 
friends of rank whose Countenance and assistance was always at hand 

1 S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bwidle 34. No. 11. 



APPENDIX. 415 

and of use to me in the Management of his Majesty's affairs here, under 
your Grace's directions ; as well as concerting the measures for our 
return to Edinburgh in the beginning of November last ; as in main- 
taining the possession of that city, and preserving the peace of it and 
the South of Scotland till our deliverance was wrought by His Royal 
Highness. I have therefore taken the liberty to desire Lord Sommer- 
velle to wait on your Grace, because he can (as being eye witness) 
explain many things that perhaps your Grace would be glad to know 
about these transactions, and he knows the Persons who, when things 
were at the worst, showed most spirit. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble serv' 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed ;— Rd. Sep' 8th, 

With Ld Somerville's of Sep' 4th 



xn. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh 1 8th Aug* 1746. 
My Lord Duke, 

By letters I have received from Carlisle from M^ Webb, and 
some persons who went from this Country to assist him in the Trials of 
the Rebel prisoners, I am informed that Bills have been found against 
several of them.^ But I am sorry at the same time to understand that 
the Judges stay at Carlisle was to be so short ^ that a great many of the 
prisoners could not arrive there before the Judges were gone. This is a 
misfortune and no doubt must occasion an additional expence, but I 

^ S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 34. No. 12. 

2 Bills were returned against one hundred and nineteen of the three hundred and eighty- 
five prisoners arraigned. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 438. 

^ The preliminary sittings of the Court at Carlisle took place on August 12 to 16. The 
proceedings were then adjourned to September 9. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 437. 



4l6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

daresay your Grace will not blame me for it. After I received the 
honour of your Grace's directions concerning the witnesses, together 
with the Attorney Generals opinion, I did not lose one minute, but sent 
both the prisoners and what witnesses I could with all the haste possible. 
Tho' I did not so much as know the route of the Judges, nor the time 
appointed for their sitting till yesterday the 17* that it was sent me by 
Mr Webb, and even if they had been sent sooner, and Bills had been 
found against all or most of the prisoners, the witnesses must have 
remained at Carlisle till the Judges return on the 8* of September to 
proceed on the Trials. 

It seems a difficulty occured at Carlisle in the taking the witnesses 
oaths; some of them were so scrupulous that they would not kiss the 
book, which they look upon as a sort of Idolatry, and the Court doubted 
of administering the Oath in the Scotch Form. But tho' there are 
many in this country that have the same ridiculous scruples, yet it 
could not been foreseen that that would have created any difficulty, 
because it has been the constant practice in the Court of Exchequer 
here to administer the oath to such witnesses in the same form that is 
done in the other Courts in Scotland, and I am glad to hear that the 
Judges at Carlisle have at last also got over that difficulty.^ 

By the same letters I am advised, that against some of the prisoners 
(even against some of those against whom Bills are found) it is abso- 
lutely necessary that some of the witnesses be sent who have refused to 
go. Your Grace knows that I have no power to compell them, therefore 
I have acquainted M' Webb &c. of the Attorney Generals opinion, that 
these witnesses should be served with subpoena's from the Court, which 
can now be got since Bills have been found against them. I cannot 
take upon me to answer for the success even of that remedy, but having 
so great Authority for it, I have mentioned it to M^ Webb, because I do 
not know a better. 

The time approaches when I believe your Grace will think it proper 
to restore Magistrates and Town Council to this City. I took the 
liberty to assure his Royal Highness as he passed, that notwithstanding 
what had been said of the disaffection of this City, yet it was certain 
that by far the majority of the trading people of this Town were Whigs, 

^ The Judges " after long reasoning " allowed witnesses to be sworn after the Scottish 
practice. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 438. 



APPENDIX. 417 

and that whether the Elections were to be made by the late Magistrates 
and Town Council, or by a Poll, we should have a Whig Magistracy, 
and I am still of the same opinion. ^ 

Lord Albemarle is expected here on Thursday. The eldest son of 
Lord Lovat surrendered, and is by Lord Albemarle's orders sent to 
Inverness. 

I have the honour to be always with the greatest respect 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 25. 



xin. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to Andrev^ Stone.^ 

Edinb. 16 Sep' 1746. 

Sir, 

I am this day favoured with your letter of the 8th Instant, 
enclosing by order of my Lord Duke of Newcastle two Recognizances 
entered into before you, by James Grant Esq"" and the Reverend M"" 
John Grant, for their personal Appearance before his Majesty's Court of 
Justiciary in Edinburgh at the first sitting of the said Court after the 
first of December next, to which you desire me to return them. I 
suppose you mean, that I should put these Recognizances into the 
hands of the Clerk Justiciary, to be by him moved to the Court at the 
said day, which I shall not fail to do, and to observe such further direc- 
tions as I may have in that affair. 

I have had nothing of late to trouble his Grace the Duke of New- 
castle with ; any intelligence I got I immediately laid it before the Earl 
of Albemarle, who I know writes regularly to my Lord Duke, and indeed 
by all the intelligence h^ Albemarle or I have got it dos not with any 

1 The election took place on November 24, 1746, when the Lofd Justice-Clerk's prediction 
was verified. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., pp. 516, 545-47. 
^ S, P. Scotland, Geo, II, Bundle 34. No. 23. 

GGG 



4l8 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

certainty appear whether the Pretender's Son does yet remain in the 
Highlands or not. I am, with Lord Albemarle's approbation, laying a 
scheme for getting more certain intelligence about the Pretenders's Son, 
Barrisdale and others. 

Most of my time of late has been taken up, by his Grace's direc- 
tions, in corresponding with M' P. Carteret Webb at Carlisle, and you 
will see by the enclosed copy of my letter to him of the g^h that I 
thought my labours as to that particular were at an end ; but on the 
11* he wrote me that one indited by the name of M' Charles 
Douglass, of Manchester, had pleaded he was Lord Mordinton, a peer,^- 
and Mr Webb there upon was pleased to ask me several questions, 
repeated in the copy of my answer to him dated the 13th ; these copys 
of my answers to M"" Webb, if you think proper, please lay before His 
Grace the Duke of Newcastle, with my most respectful compliments. 

And do me the justice to believe me to be with particular regard 
and real Esteem, 

Sir, 
Your most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
M>" Stone. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 22. i\..S. 



{Enclosure I.) 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to Philip Carterett Webb. 

Edinr g Sep"^ 1746. 
Sir, 

I was duly favoured with yours of the 4*^^ from Carlisle, and 
as you desired. Witnesses are sent against James Brann,^ Quarter 
Master. I have enclosed the examinations of two of the Witnesses 
who are Evidence, also against the person who calls himself Col. Innes. 
Mr Gray had a note of more Evidence against both these persons. 

1 His plea, " tho' at first opposed by the King's council," was allowed. — Scots Magazine, 
vol. viii., p. 438. 

2 James Brand, watchmaker. He was found guilty. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 438. 



APPENDIX. 419 

Every thing that M^ Gray wrote for, by your direction, that could 
be done, is done, and what could not be done, is otherways amply 
supplyed, but other and better witnesses, for which I need only refer to 
the answers wrote by M'' Solicitor Home and me to M^" Gray ; and we 
have at last got full proof against Arnpryor,^ a difficult task, for by his 
art and interest he had till now been able to stiffle all direct evidence 
against himself. I send enclosed the Examinations of three witnesses 
against him, who set out this morning for Carlisle under the conduct of 
Mr Yooll, a very zealous man, who can be a witness against McDonald 
of Kinloch Moydart, who was the first that received the Pretender's Son 
under his roof. 

Upon the whole you have now a very full proof sent you against 
the prisoners, much stronger than I had reason to hope for, considering 
the obvious difficulties that lay in the way, and as the bringing this 
about has cost much trouble and great expence, I am perswaded that 
nothing will be wanting to make the proper use of it for convicting such 
notorious Criminals and dangerous Enemys to our constitution, and 
thereby bring them att once under the power of the Crown, particularly 
those of distinction for their rank and station in the world, or for their 
own wickedness. 

Arnpryor is a shroud man of a tolerable Estate, and (as I have 
observed) has had art and influence till now to stifle any material strong 
evidence against him, and till more than ordinary skill was used to get 
the witnesses now sent against him, and if these should not be sufficient, 
all possible care is taking to get more. Give me leave, Sir, to observe 
that it is of more consequence to his Majesty's Service and for the peace 
and quiet of the country to get rid of such a person of rank and ability 
as Arnpryor, who is artful and able to poison a whole County, than to 
convict ninety and nine of the lowest rank of Rebels ; so much I think 
myself bound as His Majesty's Servant, and entrusted by him, to take 
notice to you, that you may bend your greatest attention to the points 
that are most material. 

I hope you found the persons I sent for your assistance, Messrs 
Miller, Gray, Henderson and Campbell, zealous and useful ; pray favour 



1 Francis Buchanan of Arnprior. He was executed at Carlisle on October 18, 1746. Cf. 
Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 498. 



426 THE ALBEMaI^LE papers. 

me so much as let me know particularly how you find them ; they 
appeared to me the most proper persons I could think of. 

I am with particular regard 
Sir, 
Your most obedient humble Servant 

(Signed) AND. FLETCHER. 

Vast numbers of persons have been subpoenaed here, on the part 
of the prisoners, who are believed to know nothing of the matter ; as 
that may be done to favour some plea for the prisoners should these 
persons decline to attend, I have sent the enclosed from the Minister of 
the parish where I usually reside as an instance of these vexatious 
Summondses. 

Endorsed : — In L^ Justice Clerk's to A. S. 
of Sepr 6, 1746. 



(Enclosure II.) 
The Lord Justice-Clerk to Philip Carterett Webb. 

Edinburgh 13th September 1746. 

Sir, 

I am favoured with yours by Express from Carlisle of the 
ijth with a copy of a plea put in by M^ Charles Douglas, indicted for 
High Treason, and of an Affidavit and certain papers annexed, given in 
in support of it, and you desire me, by Express, to send you my thoughts 
concerning what may be offered to repell it, and my opinion whether he 
be intitled to that peerage, and you desire also to know whether by the 
law of Scotland, if the patent of creation of peerage does not appear, it 
is presumed that the title descends to the male heir of the person first 
seased, or first in possession, in exclusion of the heir female of the 
person last in possession. 

In answer to which I send enclosed Return of the Lords of Session 
to an order of the Right Honourable The Lords Spiritual and Temporal 
in Parliament assembled on the 12* June 1739, Requiring the Lords of 
Session in Scotland to make up a List of the Peers of Scotland at the 



AppENbix. 421 

time of the union, whose peerages are still continuing &c. — :and you 
will observe that the peerage of Mordington is in that list. 

By the Extract produced to the Judges at Carlisle and swore to, 
whereof you have sent me copys, it appears that a Lord Mordington 
voted in the Scots parliament before the Union, and at several elections 
of the Peers of Scotland since that Union. 

Whether the person now indicted under the name of M"" Charles 
Douglas is Lord Mordington ? The Court will judge upon the evidence 
that is offered. 

As to your last question, in point of law, all I need say is, that in 
that case betwixt the heir male and the heir female of the Lord Lovat, 
where no patent appeared, the Court of Session were of opinion, that 
by the law of Scotland, the peerage of Lovat did descend to the male 
heir of the body of the person first seased or in possession in exclusion 
of the heir female of the person last in possession. 

I am, Sir, 
Your most obedient humble Servant 

(Signed) AND. FLETCHER. 

Mr Philip Carteret Webb. 

Endorsed : — In L^ Justice Clerk's to A. S. 

of Sepr 16, 1746. ^ 



XIV. 

The Lord Advocate and Lord Justice-Clerk to the 
Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, Oct, 15th 1746. 
May it please your Grace, 

We have the honour of your Grace's letter of the 7*^^ instant, 
signifying to us his Majesty's pleasure, that we should report our 
opinion, "Whether in the present Conjuncture there is reason to be- 
lieve that a bill of Indictment would be found against Lord Lovat by 
a Grand Jury to be summon'd in the County of Inverness for that 

IS. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35. No. 8. 



422 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

purpose, upon producing sufficient evidence to support the Charge ", 
— In order to give obedience to which we have been these two days 
making the best inquiry that we could here concerning the Freeholders 
of that county, whether holding their lands immediately of the King or 
others, and by the best information we could get, found these to be very 
few in number, insomuch that hardly could a list of twenty four persons 
be made up of Freeholders well affected to his Majesty, exclusive of 
Peers, the Lord President of the Session, and of five Gentlemen who 
have Estates in that County and are all members of the House of Com- 
mons, namely, the Lord Fortrose, Sir James Grant and his son, M^ 
Macleod, and M^ Campbell of Calder, and at the same time, of these 
twenty-four our information suggested reasons of doubt to many of 
them concerning their readiness to find a Bill against the Lord Lovat. 

That your Grace may be the less surprised to hear this scarcity of 
Grand Jurors in so extensive a County, we beg leave to take notice that 
this very County has been the chief source and strength of the late 
Rebellion, as comprehending in it the principal Rebel Clans, by whom 
the bulk of the County is occupy'd — for besides the Frazers themselves, 
from this County there were in the Rebellion, Lochiel with the 
Camerons, a number of Macdonalds of the several Tribes of Glengary, 
Keppoch, Glenco, Clan Ronald and Morar, with Mcphersons, Mcintoshes, 
Mcgillivraes, Masleods of Rasa and Chisholms. And we may farther 
observe to your Grace as another evidence of the Temper of this County, 
that it is not many years since the number of Gentlemen qualify'd by 
taking the oaths and otherwise to vote in elections to Parliament did 
not exceed six, and to this day they do not much exceed the double of 
that number. 

There is one other Consideration that is of some moment in forming 
an opinion on a question of expediency, which at best can be only 
conjectural, and that is, that Persons of lower rank living in the neigh- 
bourhood of Lord Lovat's Clan, however willing or well disposed they 
might be to do an Act of Justice to the King and the Publick against 
him, if no bad Consequences to themselves were to be apprehended, yet 
may be intimidated by their apprehensions of the Resentment of his 
Family or Clan. 

For these Reasons, in answer to your Grace's Question, we cannot 
forbear saying — That there is too much ground to doubt whether a Bill 



APPENDIX. 423 

of Indictment would be found against Lord Lovat by a Grand Jury to 
be summoned in the County of Inverness, even upon producing sufficient 
evidence to support the Charge. 

We have the honour to be with great respect, 
May it please your Grace 
Your Grace's most humble and most obedient Servants, 

WILLIAM GRANT. 
AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 
Endorsed : — Rd. ig by Express. 

XV. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

EdinbS 16 Dec^ 1746. 

My Lord Duke, 

Yesterday I had the honour of your Grace's Commands of 
the 9*, and it gives me great joy to know that M^ Drummond's^ being 
chosen Provost of Edinburgh is agreeable to his Majesty. I cannot 
entertain the least doubt but the consequences of this Election (with 
the smallest attention) will be the fixing the Magistracy of Edinburgh 
for the future in the hands of persons truly affected to his Majesty's 
person and Government. 

I have received an extract of the examinaton of Murray, Secretary 
to the Pretender's Son, relating to Sir John Douglas,^ and I shall 
endeavour to the utmost of my Power to obey his Majesty's commands 
in procuring further lights into that affair in the most prudent and 
cautious manner, and with as much secrecy as possible ; meantime, 
according to my orders, I have communicated your Grace's letter to 
Lord Albemarle, and acquainted his Lop of the steps I am taking. 

I make no doubt that Sir John Douglas was in January last at 
Banockburn, not only from the circumstances your Grace has mentioned, 

^ S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35. No. 43. 

'^George Drummond, one of the Commissioners of Excise. 

^Cf. Bell, Memorials of John Murray, pp. 433 et seq., and p. 13, note, supra. 



424 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

but also from what I have already picked up from a friend of Dumfries- 
shire, where it has for some time past been reported that Sir John 
Douglas upon his coming from England in Jany last went straight to 
Glasgow, on pretence to see his children then at school there, and that 
he went from thence to Banockburn during the seige of Stirling. 

Patrick Campbell and one M^ Spalding, employed about that time 
by me to get intelligence of the Rebels, were a day or two before the 
Rebels fled northward taken prisoners by them, and came to Banock- 
burn, and [were] examined by Murray, who then lodged in the House 
of Banockburn with the Pretender's Son, but neither of them saw any 
person there that answered the description of Sir John Douglas, and 
possibly he was gone before their time. Patrick Campbell made his 
escape and was the first who informed" his Royal Highness the Duke of 
the flight of the Rebels. I recommended this Pat. Campbell to Lord 
Albemarle to make a circuit through the disaffected parts of the High- 
lands, and your Grace will have received a copy of his Report,^ which I 
believe is too true and shows the necessity of doing something to purpose 
there how soon the season permits ; as from experience I trust to this 
Campbell, I have with Lord Albemarle's approbation sent him with 
instructions to Banockburn and Glasgow, and shall by him and other 
methods endeavour to trace Sir John Douglass motions and his being 
at Banockburn. 

Meantime give me leave to acquaint your Grace that David Gray, 
a servant of Murray's, is now in S*^ Martin's Lane at M"^ Ward's one of 
the King's messengers, and that James Stewart, butler to Murray, and 
who was with him at Banockburn, is now at Carlisle among those 
designed for Transportation, who possibly may know some things 
material in this affair. It might be also of use to know if Sir John 
Douglas has the same servants he had in January last, if not, who was 
then his Groom or Footman ? 

With relation to Benjamin M^Bean, I immediately sent for him, 
and examined him with the greatest care, but am convinced that he 
knows nothing material about Lord Lovat, for whom he did not seem 
to have any regard. I have enclosed a copy of his examination ; so I 
have told the messenger that he may proceed to London without delay 

I Supra, No. CLXXVIIL (Enclosure i.). 



APPENDIX. 425 

with Hugh Fraser ; as his wounds are not yet healed, the Messenger 
conjectures he'le be 17 days on the road. 

I have desired a List to be made out of all the Ministers and 
Teachers who have lately qualifyed themselves according to Law, and 
after making the proper inquirys I shall have the honour to transmit 
the same with remarks to your Grace. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 

My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 

The Writ for the Election of a Member of Parliament for the Shire 
of Ross being transmitted to me under your Grace's cover, I have taken 
the liberty to transmit S"" Harry Munro's Return under cover to himself. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed: — Rd. 22"^. 

(Enclosure,) 
Examination of Benjamin Macbean. 

Edinburgh, 16*^ December 1746. 

In presence of The Lord Justice Clerk, Compeared Benjamin 
M^bean prisoner in Edinburgh Goal, late servant to Major M^bean, and 
being Examined Declares that in spring 1743 the Declarant attended 
his Master to Castle Downie the House of Lord Lovat in order to meet 
with the Laird of Lochiel then at Lord Lovat's house, who being their 
lying ill had sent for Lochiel. That his Master's business with Lochiel 
was to give Lochiel part of the money due to him by M' Cameron of 
Stroan and about some Cattle stole by Lochiel's Tenants from Strath- 
nairn, the Declarant's Master being then Master of the Watch, but did 
not hear of any discourse among them, viz* Lord Lovat, Lochiel and the 
Declarant's Master or any others concerning any other matter or thing, 
and they only staid dinner at Lord Lovat's, The Declarant also 
attended his Master to the same place in Spring 1745, to meet with 
Lochiel only about the same affairs, so far as the Declarant had access 
to know, and at that time they staid only to Breakfast, and did not hear 

HHH 



426 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

of any other matters treated of or any discourse concerning Government 

affairs. That the Declarant and his Master were gone South to Perth 

before any of Lord Lovat's men were raised or any certainty of their 

rising. That they arrived there the second or third day of November. 

The Declarant was taken at the Bridge of Allan about the beginning of 

February last. That his Master had about sixty men of his name, and 

they are a tribe of the Camerons by a son of Stroan in Lochaber, but 

were put into M^gilivrae's Regiment, and both M^gilivrae and M^bean 

were killed at the Battle of Culloden. 

That John Fraser, a Tennent in Stratherick, was the first who 

raised a Company of the Frasers and came first of all the Frasers to 

Perth, upon which the Declarant's Master with M^Gilivrae went to 

Dundee, where they were when they heard of Lord Lovat's sons coming 

to Perth with a body of the Frasers. Declares that he knows nothing 

of Lord Lovat's Engagements to the Rebels or his having any accession 

to the Rebellion or directing or advising his son or any of his Clan to 

join the Rebels. And all this he declares to be truth, but declares he 

cannot write. 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Endorsed : — In the Lord Justice Clerk's 
of Dec. i6, 1746. 



XVL 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinbr, 18* Dec^ 1746. 
My Lord Duke, 

I had the honour on the 16* to acquaint your Grace, that 
from the Examination of Benjamin M^bean it did not appear that the 
sending him to London could be of any use, and that I had accordingly 
acquainted the bearer, Thomas Chandler, one of the King's Messengers, 
that he might without delay proceed to London with Hugh Fraser,^ in 
obedience of the orders he had received from your Grace. The Mes- 
senger has proposed from Hugh Fraser, that in regard his wounds are 

^ S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35. No, 48, ? Lord Lovat's secretary. 



APPENDIX. 42^ 

not yet healed,^ he may be permitted to carry a servant with him who 
dresses his wounds. I told the Messenger I had no directions as to 
that matter, and that the only inconvenience I forsaw in Hugh Eraser's 
servant being of the party was, that thereby Hugh Fraser might find 
means to make his Escape on the Road, which was his business to con- 
sider, and as the Messenger is not in the least apprehensive that thereby 
Hugh Fraser can make his escape, he is to gratifye the prisoner so far 
as to permit his servant to go with him to dress his wounds. 
I have the honour to be with the greatest respect 
My Lord Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

xvn. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

EdinbS 23 Dec^ 1746. 

My Lord Duke, 

I had this day at noon the honour of your Grace's Letter of 
the 20*^^ about the order of the House of Lords to the Lord Advocate, 
directing him to take the proper methods that Lord Lovat may by his 
Factors or Agents recover the rents or profits of his Estate, in like 
manner as if he was not under an accusation of High Treason.^ 

Lord Advocate did communicate to me your Grace's letter of the 
9th containing his Majesty's pleasure upon a petition that had been 
presented by Lord Lovat upon the same subject, in which he was 
desired to advise with the Lord President. I perceived that no time 
was to be lost in the Advocate's giving the necessary orders, and Lord 
Lovat's Chief Agent or Factor being in Town he was immediately sent 

^ Cf. supra, pp. 331 et seq. 

-S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 35. No. 53. 

^ On December 18, 1746, Lovat was carried from the Tower to the Bar of the House of 
Lords, when the articles of his impeachment were read to him. He petitioned that he might 
be allowed to receive the rents of his estate, seeing that he was without other means of 
subsistence. His petition was allowed. Cf. Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 598. 



428 THE ALBEMARLfe PAPERS. 

for, and the Advocate after adviseing with the President gave such 
orders as fully satisfyed Lord Lovat's Agent, and these orders were sent 
North on Thursday last the 18* Instant, a Copy whereof the Advocate 
Sends to your Grace by this Messenger, whereby it will appear that by 
his Majesty's orders, the obstructions to Lord Lovat's receiving by his 
Factors or Agents the Profits of his Estate were removed before the 
order of the House of Lords for that purpose was made. 

As to what happened here on Saturday last, and the commiting M^s 
M^dougall ^ prisoner to the Castle of Edinburgh, I beg leave to refer to 
what Lord Albemarle has wrote, having given his Lop what materials 
I had. 

I send your Grace a List of the Nonjurant Episcopall Ministers in 
the City and County of Edinburgh, but none of them have qualifyed 
themselves pursuant to the Act of Parliament passed in the last Session, 
even by taking the Oaths, nor can I yet discover that they have 
attempted to preach or teach and educate children, but I shall con- 
tinue to be upon the watch.^ 

As to S^ John Douglass, the person I employed has traced him at 
Glasgow in January last with two servants and three horses ; by the 
marks of these I am in hopes he'le be traced to Banockburn &c. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect 
My Lord Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 26th (by Cleverly). 

1 S2ipra, pp. 338, 349. 

2 An abstract of "An Act more effectually to prohibit and prevent Pastors or Ministers 
from officiating in Episcopal meeting houses in Scotland, without duly qualifying themselves 
according to law " is printed in Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 364. From the same (p. 446) 
it appears that by September, 1746, five Episcopal ministers had qualified in terms of the Act, 
namely, Messrs Walker of Old Meldrum, Laing of Puttachie, Livingston of Old Deer, Skinner 
of Longside, and Farquhar of Dumfries. 



APPENDIX. 



429 



(Enclosure). 

List of the Several Episcopal Ministers within the City 
AND County of Edinburgh. 



Their Names. 

Mr Alexander M^Kenzie 
& Mr James Wingate . 
Mr William Harper & 
Mr Alexander M^Kenzie 
Mr John M^Kenzie 
Mr Robert Keith . 
Mr James M^Kenzie 

Mr Alexander Robertson 



Mr 



Addison 



Mr Blair 

Mr David Rae and 
Mr Patrick Gordon 
Mr Thomas Carstairs 

Mr William Law and 
Mr Patrick Forbes 
Mr Henry Fowlis . 

Mr William Forbes 



Places where they kept 
their several Meeting-houses. 

Forglen's Back land, 
Edinburgh. 

On the East Side of Carrubbers Closs 
Edinburgh. 

In Grays Closs Edinburgh. 

Baillie Fife's Closs Edinburgh. 

The West Side of Nidry's wynd Edin- 
burgh. 

The foot of Carrubber's Closs Edin- 
burgh. 

At the head of Chalmers's Closs Edin- 
burgh. 

The Skinners Hall Edinburgh. 

The Old Assem^bly Closs Edinburgh. 

At the head of Nidry's wynd Edin- 
burgh. 

In the Town of South Leith County 
of Edinburgh. 

Town of Dalkeith and County of 
Edinburgh. 

Town of Musleburgh Do County. 



Endorsed : — In the Lord Justice Clerk's 
of Deer 23d, 1746. 



430 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

XVIII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, 4th February, 1747. 

My Lord Duke, 

This day I had the honour of your Grace's letter of the 31st 
January, wherein you are pleased to acquaint me that M"" Attorney 
General having perused the Precognitions which I transmitted to M^ 
Sharp relating to Lord Lovat, was of opinion that several of the wit- 
nesses therein mentioned (the list of whom I have received) are very 
material to be examined at the Trial of the said Lord Lovat on the 23*^ 
of February, the day appointed for that purpose, and that your Grace 
was commanded to acquaint me with His Majesty's pleasure that the 
persons named in the said list should be forth with desired to come to 
London in the most expeditious manner. And your Grace is pleased 
to recommend it to me to give the necessary orders for their being sent 
thither without loss of time and to supply them with what money ma)? 
be necessary for the expence of their journey, and to assure them that 
all their charges shall be borne with a reasonable satisfaction for their 
trouble and loss of time. 

Being much indisposed and confined to my bed, Lord Albemarle 
was so good as to come to me, and in concert with his Lordship (for- 
seeing no small difficultys in getting His Majesty's commands speedily 
and effectually obeyed) we have both wrote to the Earl of Loudoun to 
use his best endeavours, and I have sent M"" Alexander McMillan, 
Deputy Keeper of the Signet, to be subservient to my Lord Loudoun, 
and with proper authoritys, directions and recommendations to all 
Officers of the Law and Friends &c., with money for defraying the 
necessary charges. And this seemed to Lord Albemarle and me as the 
most probable way of success. 

As soon as I get any health I shall try what can be done in bring- 
ing the other affair^ to light, 

1 S. p. Scotlatid, Geo. II. Bundle 36. No. 26. ^ Sir John Douglas's, 



APPENDIX. 431 

May I beg your Grace's pardon for using another hand, and for 
that reason for not writing more fully. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 
My Lord Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. iii^h. 



XIX. 
The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, ii'h February, 1747. 

My Lord Duke, 

Yesternight Messieurs Campbell and Henderson arrived 
here from Inverness and brought with them the Precognition taken pur- 
suant to the Attorney General's opinion at the desire of M"" Sharp, which 
Precognition I send herewith under cover to M"" Sharp open in case 
your Grace has time to glance it over ; you will find William Eraser, 
of Egist, one of the witnesses touches Mcleod. These Gentlemen also 
brought with them M"^ Robert Eraser,^ who is so far in his way in 
obedience to your Grace's commands to attend the Committee of the 
House of Commons appointed for managing the Trial of Lord Lovat, 
and sets out to-morrow under the care of M"" Patrick Campbell, and Mr 
Charles Stewart, of whom Lord Albemarle writes fully to your Grace,^ 
goes with them, and as that person does not seem so fond of the journey 
Lord Albemarle and I were of opinion that it was necessary M^ Camp- 
bell should have a proper assistant to go along with him. I have wrote 
to Mr Sharp to let him know what money I have given them that so he 
may settle accounts with them. 

I had the honour to acquaint your Grace that I had sent M^ 
M^'Millan North to act under Lord Loudoun in prevailing with the 

^S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle ■^Q. No. 32. 

2 Of Castle Leathers. =* No. CXCVI., supra. 



432 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

persons contained in the list transmitted to me by your Grace to go 
directly to London, and I have now accounts that M^ McMillan met 
Lord Loudoun at Taybridge in his way hither, and that his Lordship 
returned to Inverness with M"" McMillan, and I am hopeful soon to hear 
of their success. 

I find Fraser very willing to tell all he knows, his father Castle 
Leathers, who was Curator to Lord Lovat's estate, so far as I have 
been informed was useful to it, and merits some consideration for his 
services. 

From the intelligence transmitted to your Grace by Lord Albe- 
marle, it appears that great pains is taken to keep up a spirit of 
Rebellion in the disaffected parts of the Highlands and North of Scot- 
land by giving them hopes of a French Invasion, and till some effectual 
general measures are taken for re-establishing the peace of that country, 
these Sowers of Sedition and Rebellion will meet with too much encour- 
agement and continue a thorn in our side. 

I always have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 
My Lord Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. i^^K 



XX. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, 17th Feb^ 1746/7. 
My Lord Duke, 

Charles Stewart, who by your Grace's directions to Lord 
Albemarle was sent to London, did not seem to like the journey, as 
I formerly had the honour to observe to your Grace, and though at Lord 
Albemarle's desire I took some pains to shew him it would be for his 
interest to tell the Truth, and though he made fair promises, I could 

^5. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 36, No. 35, 



APPENDIX, 433 

observe that his head did not go along with his tongue, and that he 
incHnes really to be hide bound. To make a further experiment on him, 
the night before he set out for London I sent in to prison to him a 
person of his own way of thinking, who among other things, having 
asked him what carried him to London, he said he suspected it was his 
old master,^ John Murray of Broughton, upon which ye person I sent 
said, if that is the case the less merite you leave him the better, and 
advised him to make a clean breast, upon which Charles Stewart said, 
matters were not yet at so low an ebb, for that he verily believed affairs 
would soon take another turn and wished to God he had his liberty 
again. I thought it my duty to acquaint your Grace of this, at the 
same time it may be inconvenient to let Charles Stewart know any 
thing of this, as the person I employed to converse with him is now 
employed with Lord Albemarle's approbation to try to be useful in 
apprehending Clunie Mcpherson, who seems to be at present the person 
among the Rebels of most consequence to the Government to be laid 
hold of. 

I have accounts from M' McMillan, dated iit^* instant from Inver- 
ness, that Lord Loudoun and he arrived there the lo* and are doing 
all they can to prevail with the witnesses against Lord Lovat to attend 
his Trial, but that they meet with difficultys, particularly from one 
Fraser, a Solicitor sent from London to pick up witnesses for Lord 
Lovat, and who uses all means to prevent witnesses from going up 
against him. I am every moment looking for more particular accounts, 
meantime I am glad to hear Lord Lovat's Trial is to be put off for 
some time,^ for as we have here a great fall of snow and very stormy 
weather it is almost impossible that the witnesses, however willing, 
could be at London by the 23d. 

We have nothing material from the Highlands, which makes me 
begin to doubt what we heard of a ship landing Arms at Egg &c. 

When I hear any thing material about L^ Lovat's witnesses or 
from the Highlands it shall be sent by Express. This comes by an 

1 In his Memorials (p. 289) Murray describes Stewart as " one of his Clerks ". Cf. 
ibid., pp. 290, 292, 483. 

^Lovat's trial was originally fixed for January 13. It was then postponed to February 
23, again to March 5, and finally to March g. — Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 596 ; vol. ix., pp. 
45, 88, loi. 

Ill 



434 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Express sent and paid for by William Fraser, an Agent of Lord 
Lovats. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect 
My Lord Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 

The London post due yesternight is not yet arrived at lo at night. 
Duke of Newcastle. 
Endorsed : — Rd. 22^^. 

XXL 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinbr 23 Febr. 1746/7. 
My Lord Duke, 

I send your Grace a list of the witnesses who set out this 
morning from this for London, which contains the whole in the List 
your Grace sent me except four, and of these four there are already two 
gone as witnesses in defence for Lord Lovat, viz. Alexander Fraser, 
merchant in Inverness, and John M^James in Drenie or Red Bank near 
Beaufort. The other two are James Fraser of Fanblair and Alexander 
Fraser of Tomnavaulin in Abertarf. By a letter I had from M^ McMillan 
of the i6th from Inverness the first of these, Ja^ Fraser of Fanblair, had 
not only agreed to go up but had taken money from M^ McMillan for de- 
fraying his charges to Edinburgh, but notwithstanding thereof, by a letter 
I had from Lord Loudoun of the 18*, I find he has since given them 
the slip and absconded, and my Lord Loudoun desires to know whether 
it is proper to use force, and in that case doubts not of finding him. But 
I should think that a man who is capable of such roguery is as well 
away as to be trusted with the other witnesses, and as to Alexander 
Fraser of Tomnavaulin, my Lord Loudoun in the same Letter writes me 
that he had been with him and was to set out next day for this place, 
but I have not yet heard of him. 

J S. p. Scotland, Geo, II. Btpidle 36, No. 38, 



Appendix. 435 

Mr Schives of Muirtown, one of the witnesses/ and who is nearly 
alhed to Lord Lyon, has been always reputed as Whig and to him and 
his example in a great measure is owing the evidence that has been 
discovered by these recognitions against Lord Lovat, and though past 
sixty he comes cheerfully in the service of his King and Country, and 
therefore I beg leave to recommend him to your Grace's favour and 
protection, and that you may be pleased to take some notice of him. 

Hugh Fraser of Dumballoch, another of the witnesses, who I 
believe will tell the truth,^ though a Fraser, has a brother a Volunteer 
in the Train, your Grace's recommending him to the officers of the 
Ordinance is a favour I promised to them to beg of your Grace. 

Thomas Fraser of Struie had very ill will to march and begged to 
be off. Lord Loudoun left all their objections and difficulties to be 
settled by me, and though I believe he will prove a very constipate 
witness yet I did not think it adviseable to gratifye him, because if he 
had obtained leave to stay at home, most of them would [have] grumbled 
if they had been refused the same favour, and so after converseing too 
and again I perswaded him to march, and after all the trouble and 
expence I heartily wish they may come in time ; upon receiving a letter 
from Mr Sharp to hasten them, I prevailed with such as could post to 
proceed with the utmost dispatch, but none of them are very good 
horsemen ; but however, six of them have undertaken it, and the other 
six mostly weak, old and infirm, with the help of post chaises, are to 
make what haste they can ; it was utterly impossible to get them for- 
warded with more expedition. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect 

My Lord Duke 

Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 28 (by Jackson). 

^ His evidence is printed in Scots Magazine, vol. ix., p. 103. His name is there given as 
Robert Shevize. 

- His evidence is in Scots Magazine, vol. ix., p. 109. 



43^ TiiE albemArlE papers. 

XXII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinb'' 25 Feb"" 1746/7. 

My Lord Duke, 

The enclosed was wrote on Monday in hopes to have gone 
by Lord Albemarle's express, which was delayed till this morning, and 
with respect to the witnesses against Lord Lovat, I have nothing further 
to add, but that M^ Donald Fraser, minister of Killearn, the first witness 
in the 2^ precognition arrived here yesternight, and sets out to-morrow. 
I am glad Lord Lovat's Trial was, upon his own application, put off 
till the 5* of March ; by that time all the witnesses will be arrived at 
London. I send enclosed a list of the witnesses that have gone for and 
against Lord Lovat, made up by Lord Loudoun, who has managed this 
affair with the greatest activity and prudence. 

I have seen His Majesty's directions about the prisoners in your 
Lops letter to Lord Albemarle, and in obedience thereto I met with his 
LoF, Geni Huske and Lord Advocate. As in obedience to the directions 
I had the honour to receive from your Grace, all the prisoners in Scot- 
land, against whom there was evidence, or hopes of it, were in August 
last sent to Carlisle, the number of the present prisoners against whom 
there is sufficient evidence must be very small, and lists of them dis- 
tinguished, as your Grace has been pleased to direct, will be transmitted 
as soon as possible ; as to the others against whom no evidence has 
been procured, and whom His Majesty is most graciously pleased should 
be discharged, After taking notice that notwithstanding the expiration 
of the Act of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, our Habeas 
Corpus Act allows prisoners for Capital Crimes to be detained in Prison 
60 days before his Majesty's Advocate is obliged to bring them to Trial, 
and in case of commitments for Treason they may after these 60 days 
be detained till they find Bail to compear at any time within 12 months 
and for their good behaviour in the mean time. We were all of opinion 
that it might be for his Majesty's service not to dismiss them all at 
once, as if intituled to it in point of Right, and thought it more prudent 

1 S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 36. No. 42. 



APPENDIX. 437 

to discharge them, at least the most suspected of them, piece meal, as 
a matter of favour from the Crown, upon their finding what Bail they 
could in terms of our Habeas Corpus Act, even before the lapse of the 60 
days. As to all which I shall be glad to be honoured with your Grace's 
Commands. I have already discharged eight prisoners against whom 
there was no evidence nor hopes of any upon their finding Bail as afore- 
said ; as they offered Bail, I thought there was no harm in taking it. 
I have the honour to be with the utmost respect. 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 28 (by Jackson). 

xxin. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to Andrew Stone. ^ 

Edin"" Thursday, 5 March 1746/7. 
Sir, 

I have just time for a Private Express yt is going to London 
to acquaint you that the Earl of Albemarle sailed early this morning 
with a fair wind with the Transports,^ but the wind turning easterly 
before they got the length of the May, the convoy and Transports 
returned about 4 o'clock this afternoon to the Road of Leith, and the 
wind still continues easterly. I beg you'll acquaint his Grace the Duke 
of Newcastle with this. 

I am with particular regard 

Sir, 

Your most obedient and most humble servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Mr Stone. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 9. 

1 S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 36. No. 45. 

' Howard's Old Buffs, Campbell's Scots Fusiliers, with Fleming's, Dejean's and Conway's 
regiments accompanied Lord Albemarle to Holland. — Scots Magazine, vol. ix., p. 92. 



43^ THE albemArle papers. 

XXIV. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to Andrew Stone.^ 

Edinr gth March, 1746/7. 
Sir, 

Having this opportunity, please know that Lord Albemarle 
sailed with the Transports from Leith on Friday morning ^ with a very 
fair [wind] which has continued, so that we have good hopes his LoP 
by this time is on the coast of Holland and may be at Williamstadt 
to-morrow. I have sent the report about the Prisoners signed by G. 
Huske and me to the King's Advocate. Lord Albemarle, who agreed 
with us on every point, was sailed before the report could be wrote out 
fair. 

I am with the greatest regard and esteem 

Sir, 
Your mpst obedient humble Servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Mr Stone. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 14*. 

XXV. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, 20th March 1747. 
My Lord Duke, 

The Reverend Mr Mackie, Minister of the Gospell at S* 
Ninians, designs to have the Honour of waiting on your Grace and 
delivering this. The circumstances of his case ^ will I hope plead my 
Excuse for taking the liberty of giving your Grace this trouble. 

The poor of the parish of S^ Ninians near Stirling are among the 
most remarkable Sufferers by the late wicked Rebellion and their case 

1 S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 36. No. 45. ^ March 6. 

3 S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 36. No. 49. •* Cf. No. CGI., stipra. 



APPENDIX. 



439 



is singular — A sum of about ;£'6oo sterling had by Mortifications and 
Contributions been collected for their Maintenance, and that sum had 
been employed in building an Isle joining to and making part of the 
Church of S* Ninians, and by letting the seats in that Isle a consider- 
able annual sum was raised for the support of these poor. The Young 
Pretender and his Adherents, provocked with the steady zeal of M"" 
Mackie the Minister to our present happy Establishment, who could 
not even by the whole Rebel Army be frighted from doing his duty 
and praying for the King and the success of his Arms, contrived a very 
silly but cruel piece of Revenge by blowing up that Church, probably 
hoping at the same time to destroy the Minister or some of his friends. 
The Church and Isle were accordingly blown up and i6 or 17 persons 
perished, and the Ministers house much dammaged, and the poor have 
lost this fund for their subsistence. The Heretors are now about to 
rebuild the church but won't rebuild the Isle, and the poor have no fund 
to do it, which has induced M^ Mackie, whose zeal was probably the 
cause of their loss, to go to London in order to lay their case before His 
Majesty and to implore his bounty to repair it, and is desirous to put 
himself under your Grace's protection. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 
My Lord Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Duke of Newcastle. 



XXVI. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, gth April 1747. 
My Lord Duke, 

I had the honour of your Grace's letter of the 2y^^ of March, 
with his Majesty's commands that I should not go the Circuit this 
summer but remain at Edinburgh, which I shall carefully obey. But 

1 S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 37. No. 4. 



440 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

this oblidges me to mention to your Grace a matter that has been often 
stated to those in power, and that is, a doubt in the Law of Scotland 
whether in the case of the absence of one of the Judges the other Judge 
who goes the Circuit can try any cases. At present it is the opinion of 
the Court that one Judge has not power, and therefore it seems exceed- 
ing necessary that that difficulty be forthwith removed by a new Statute, 
otherwise there must be a Surcease of Justice this summer in the North 
Circuit, which is my Tour to go, and where there are several indict- 
ments or Criminal letters gone to be executed, particularly at Aberdeen. 
And in hopes that such a Law will be made, I am as long as I can to 
keep secret his Majestys Commands to me, least their being known 
should stop the execution of the indictments and letters, because the 
Trials could not come on without two Judges. 

As to John Bayne^ I have done every thing in my power to get 
hold of him, and I am heartily sorry to tell your Grace that hitherto all 
my endeavours have been without success. I had got information of 
his being at Culdares in Broadalbane, and there upon in concert with 
Lord Breadalbane's Doers here, I employed his LoPs Steward to cause 
the Keeper of his Forest (because he would be least liable to suspicion) 
in the neighbourhood of Culdares to search for John Bayne, and to take 
the assistance of a party of Broadalbane men to seize him, for which 
purpose I gave him a proper warrand, and gave him unlimited credit 
to spare no Expence that was. necessary, and in case of their seizing 
him, gave him an order to apply to the commanding officer at Perth for 
a party of the Troops to carry him to Edinburgh, and Lord Breadal- 
bane's Steward, after search, having reported to me that John Bayne 
was gone from Broadalbane and returned to Appin, the Country of the 
Stewarts, I employed the Sheriff of the shire of Argyleshire and M^ 
Campbell of Airds, whose house is near to Appin, to search for him 
there and seize him, and if they should have any use for it, to apply to 
the Governour of Fort William for a party either to seize or conduct 
him hither ; and these Gentlemen not finding him, but having got 
intelligence that he was gone to Rannoch to meet Mcpherson of Clunie 
and others, Captain Campbell of Inveraray with a party of Troops were 

1 John Bain was Murray of Broughton's servant. In Murray's examination on February 
8. 1747. he states that Bain was then, as he believed, in France. C/. Bell, Memorials 0/ jfohn 
Murray, p. 483. 



APPENDIX. 441 

sent to Rannoch by General Huske to seize such as should come to 
that meeting, and I gave particular instructions to Captain Campbell 
to search both in Rannoch and Breadalbane for Bayne, and I send your 
Grace a Copy of two of his letters to me of the ig'h and 27<^h of March, 
both of them acquainting me of his diligence and want of success. I 
also some time ago applied to Bayne's wife, who then lived at Edin- 
burgh, and endeavoured to perswade her to bring her husband to me, 
and promised that he should not be made an evidence against his old 
Master M'' Murray. But I had not any better success with her. And 
upon receipt of your Grace's letter, I have with all the earnestness in 
my power repeated my instructions to the Sheriff of Argyle and M"" 
Campbell of Airds, and there is but one other expedient that I can 
possibly think of, it must probably be an expensive one, but since his 
Majesty is so desireous to have him seized, I dare say your Grace would 
blame me if any labour or Expence were spared, and therefore I am 
forthwith to go on with it until your Grace forbid me, and the expedient 
is to find out some person in appearance at least of Baynes way of 
thinking, and who will probably be trusted by him or not suspected of 
any design, and that this person should trace him and follow him where 
ever he goes throughout all Scotland until he finds him, and either find 
a proper opportunity himself of seizing him, or give notice to proper 
persons who may seize him, or both. Your Grace may believe that it 
will require a pretty high reward, in case of success, to prevail with a 
proper person to undertake this, and it must cost some expence in all 
events. 

Some time ago I acquainted your Grace of another person that I 
was in search of, viz. Christopher Hislop, who had been servant to S"" 
John Douglass, that upon intelligence of his being in the Shire of Dum- 
fries I had granted a proper warrant and employed some persons to 
seize him, but that the Report made to me was that he was gone to 
Yorkshire, of which County he was, and there I had no power to search 
for him. I have not yet heard any accounts of his return to Scotland, 
but yet I imagine it is possible he may some time or other return to the 
country, where his masters House and Estate are ; at the same time I 
know it would be to no purpose to send any party there to search, 
because they are upon their Guard ; the device therefore that I have 
tried is, to employ an Excise Officer from time to time to search every 

KKK 



442 THE ALBEM'ARLE PAPERS. 

place that he can suspect, because these officers are in use of searching 
for concealments of another kind and therefore they will not be readily 
suspected. 

I likewise acquainted your Grace that one of M^ Murray's late 
Servants, David Gray, whom I had sent to London about the Bill of 
Attainder, was then in the hands of one of the Kings Messengers in S* 
Martins Lane, and that Stewart, another of them, was at Carlisle, that 
I sent an acquaintance of his to converse with him there, and that he 
knew nothing about S"" John Douglass, and I do not know any other of 
M"^ Murrays Servants, or any other person that can be of use in that 
Question, unless your Grace shall direct me to examine S^ Hugh 
Paterson and his principal servant, but then such an examination will 
make a discovery what we are in search of, and probably will not be of 
great use. 

Your Grace also desires me to find out some persons acquainted 
with "William McGregor, alias Drummond of Bochaldie, who can swear 
to his hand writing, and have seen him sign his name. That man was, 
as I am told, also concerned in the Rebellion 1715, and what creates 
the difficulty in executing that part of your Grace's Commands is, that 
for many years he has very seldom come to Town. However I found 
one man, Francis Russell, who frequently corresponded with him and 
dealt with him in Bills of Exchange, but then he never had occasion to 
see him sign his name. I send your Grace a Copy of his Examination, 
whereby you will know whether he can be of any use ; he also gave me 
eight of Drummond's letters, but I have neither sent them nor the 
principal examination because I design to reexamine him, and to trace 
the matter as far as I can to find out if possible some person that saw 
him either sign his acceptance to the Bill mentioned in the examination, 
or at least saw him pay the money and retire the Bills, and if your 
Grace wants to have any of his letters that you may see more of his 
hand writing they shall be sent to you, but I know not if M' Russell 
could be prevailed on to go to London, were it necessary. 

I have also at last found one John Ross, who was Drummonds 
partner in Trade and has often seen him sign his name ; he makes 
difficulty in going to London. However I am hopeful to be able to 
persuade him. But then if Russell is of no use, Ross will be but one 
vvitness, and till I have your Grace's further order I know not whether 



AppENbix. 44 j 

I should endeavour to send him unless I find another to concur with 
him. For which purpose I have wrote to a man I can trust, M"^ 
Findlayson, Commissar of Dunkell, who lives near to the place of 
Drummonds ordinary Residence, to find out some persons who know 
his hand writing and have seen him sign his name, and to send them to 
me. 

I also send your Grace copy of information lately sent me by Major 
Colquhoun of Luss ; the moment I received it I laid it before General 
Churchill, who immediately gave the proper orders for parties to seize 
the persons informed against. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 

My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 

iQth April. P.S. — After putting up this packet I received by 
Express from Fort William a letter from the Deputy Governor of Fort 
William, his words are, " this moment I received certain intelligence 
" that D"^ Cameron, brother to Locheil, is landed from France, and he 
" with his uncle Torcastle went two or three days ago thro' the Braes of 
" Lochabar on their way to Badenoch to meet with M^Pherson of 
" Clunie ; my informer tells me likeways that there are i8 ships seen off 
" Barahead and there are none of the Kings ships but the Tryall Sloop 
" on this coast : " If his news prove true about the French ships, I must 
soon know of it from different quarters, and shall not fail to transmit to 
your Grace what accounts I get. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 14th. 

{Enclosure I.) 

Captain Campbell to the Lord Justice-Clerk. 

Taybridge, ig^h March 1747. 
My Lord, 

I will not trouble you with a history of my Rannoch Ex- 
pedition as I have given it fully to General Husk. I have had, 



444 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

privatly, people in Glenlyon and other places in search of intelligence 
about Bayne and Buchanan, and all I could learn is that Bayne was 
some little time about Culdares's house but had left it about 5 weeks 
ago, and that the course he took when he left that place was Southwards 
towards Breadalbane — Buchanan has not been there that I could find 
for a long time past, but 'tis believed if he is not gone oif the country 
that he is in Strathayre, a place betwixt Balquhidder and Monteith, 
which is his native country and where he has a small mealing. 

I shall make further enquiry about Bayne as I return from this to 
Inveraray through Breadalbane, the success of which shall be duly re- 
ported to your LoP, and before I left Inverarary the Sheriff wrote to 
Airds to find out if he had been then in Appine. 

(Signed) DUN. CAMPBELL. 

Inveraray, 27th March 1747. 

As I returned from Taybridge [I] was at pains to procure informa- 
tion about Bayne but could get no other of any signifigance of him than 
what I mentioned in my last. He was in Appine, as your LoP was 
informed, where he went in hopes of getting over the water with 
Ardsheall in a ship that was then expected, and missing of that he 
returned again to Perthshire, which he soon thereafter left and went to 
Southward in search of some opportunity of getting away. I have 
employed some people to trace him and promised proper rewards in the 
event of success. 

(Signed) DUN. CAMPBELL. 

Endorsed : — In the h^ Justice Clerk's letter 
of April 9, 1747. 

{Enclosure II.) 
Declaration of Francis Russell. 

Edinbr, 4* April 1747. 

In presence of The Lord Justice Clerk Compeared M^ Francis 
Russell, Surgeon in Edinburgh, and being Interrogate if he knows the 



APPENDIX. 445 

hand writing of M^ William Drummond of Balhadie and if ever he had 
seen him sign his name, Declares that in the year 1736 and for some- 
time preceeding the declarant had some dealings with the said William 
Drummond, and during that time received several letters from him, 
whereof he now Exhibites Eight, all marked by the said Lord Justice 
Clerk and the declarant of this date, and believes that the said letters 
are the hand writing and subscriptions of the said William Drummond, 
but never remembers to have seen him write or sign his name, but has 
had occasion to send him bills to the Country for acceptance, and has 
got them returned accepted in the same way as in the above letters. 
And declares this to be truth. 

(Signed) FRANCIS RUSSELL. 

Endorsed : — In the L'^ Justice Clerk's letter 
of April g, 1747. 



{Enclosure III.) 

Major Colquhoun to the Lord Justice-Clerk. 

Rosedoe, 5th April 1747. 
My Lord, 

Upon Friday's night I had an Express from J. D. acquaint- 
ing me that he was credibly informed that a stranger came to the house 
of Duchra some days ago, but could not as yet find out who he was, but 
he is attended by Craigbarnet, Hamilton of Bardowie, Alexander Graham 
and some lads, and is every night within house roof ; he says they stay 
always betwixt the Duchra and Drunkie's house, and that if Drummond 
and Buchlivie partys were well guided they would catch the whole ; 
■they behooved to be at each of these houses by daylight and to guard 
well the office houses, the Drummond party to make the attack upon 
Duchra and the other upon Drunkie's house, which is in the Glen of 
Downkie ; he says there is one George Ritchie, Messenger at Buchlivie, 
who is the proper person to guide that party, but as they are very much 
upon the watch it must be very privatly gone about ; he says he suspects 
the Stranger to be Alexander M^lauchlane, but he is not yet sure ; he has 



446 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

heard some accounts of Clunie since he was here and is just going off 
upon further information towards North. 

(Signed) JA. COLQUHOUN. 

Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's 
of April g, 1747. 



XXVII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

' Edinburgh, 14 April 1747. 
My Lord Duke, 

I had this morning a letter from M' Douglass, storekeeper 
at Fort William, who was trusted and employed by Lord Albemarle to 
get intelligence ; his letter is dated at Fort William the 8* ; his words 
are — " I have had a man I can depend on these ten days in the Country 
" of Airsaig waiting for news from the Western Islands, and he is not 
" returned, which gives me reason to doubt of the Report of Ships 
" having been seen hovering upon the coast of them Islands ". 

Had there been any truth in the Deputy Governour of Fort 
William's intelligence I should have heard of it before now from the 
Sheriff Deputy of Argylle, M' Campbell of Aird, or the Magistrates of 
Campbell Town. 

I have not made further discoveries about the hand writing of 
William Drummond, but hope soon to have an answer from Dumblane. 
I have the honour to be with the utmost respect 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 20. 

1 S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 37. No. 8. 



APPENDIX. 447 

XXVIII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, the 17th April 1747. 

My Lord Duke, 

I do not hear any more of the Report of French Ships being 
seen off the West Coast, or any where else, which makes me conclude 
it was altogether groundless, and had the French any design on this 
Island, I do not think they would chuse to land any of their own Troops 
in the West Highlands, where there are no roads, no provisions, no sort 
of forage. However, as till a Peace is actually concluded we may lay 
our account that France will do all in her power to distress us, we must 
as far as possible be on our Guard every where ; therefore it is to be 
wished that some effectual measures were laid down and followed out to 
establish the peace of the Highlands upon a solid and lasting founda- 
tion, by effectually punishing or banishing those we ought to get rid of, 
and by effectually disarming such as his Majesty may think proper to 
pardon, and civilizing them by introducing Agriculture, Fisherys, and 
Manufactures, and thereby by degrees extirpateing their barbarity, with 
their chiefs marks of distinction, their language and dress, and prevent- 
ing their idleness, the present source of their poverty, Theift and 
Rebellion, which would cut off that branch of the Pretender's hopes, 
and that handle the French have to distress us, whenever they judge 
it most for their purpose ; and at the same time would make that 
barbarous part of the Island, hitherto a noxious load upon the whole, 
become hereafter our support and strength, by the produce of our 
Fisherys and Manufactures, and the great supply of men for our Fleet 
and Armys, to which the Genius of the Highlanders naturally lead 
them. 

Major General Churchill tells me he has no particular instructions 
farther than to reside at Edinb'', and act as a Major General on the 
Staff, and consequently under the command of Major Gen' Blackney, 
the older Major General. As Major General Blackney resides at 

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448 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Inverness, a great distance from this place, and has a particular com- 
mission, as I understand, to command the Chain made by Fort William, 
Fort AugUvStus and Fort George, it is supposed he will command the 
Troops intended to encamp this summer at Fort Augustus^ for the 
more effectual reduction and disarming the Highlands in that neigh- 
bourhood and to the Northward, which it is supposed may be effectuated 
by the encampment of four Regiments at Fort Augustus, with the 
assistance of the Highland Regiment commanded by Lord Loudoun, 
and the Garrisons of Fort William, Fort George, and a Regiment of 
Foot cantooned at and in the neighbourhood of Inverness. 

In that case, if the remainder of the Troops, including the 3 
Companys of Lord John Murrays Regiment and the 2 Regiments of 
Dragoons, were for this summer put under the immediate command 
of Major General Churchill, with his head quarters at Stirling, and the 
Troops cantooned along the Firth of Forth and the Eastern coast, this 
might be done without any extraordinary expence to the Government, 
and so as the Troops might be drawn together in a few days ready to 
march to the east or west coast, as the exigences of the Government 
might require, and by this means Major General Churchill might be 
charged with the effectual reduction and disarming of these parts of the 
Highlands which lye in the Countys of Stirling, Dumbarton, Perth, 
Angus, Kincairden, Aberdeen and Bamff. 

I beg pardon for transgressing so much upon your Grace's time 
and patience in meddling with things out of my Province and above my 
Sphere ; may 1 entreat your Grace to have the goodness to impute it 
(as in truth it is) to my Zeal for his Majesty's Service. 

I have repeated assurances from the Sheriff of Argyll that he is 
doing all in his power to apprehend John Bayne. I have wrote to Col. 
Duroure at Fort William on the same subject. The Sheriff of Argyll 
writes me that he does not believe any number of ships were lately 
seen of Bara head, as he had intelligence very lately from that place, 
and is well informed that all is quiet in the Western Islands ; he also 
says that he has not heard of D'' Camerons arrival from France, that 

^ Early in July, 1747, Skelton's, Handasyde's, Mordaunt's, Sackville's and Blakeney's 
regiments went into camp at Fort Augustus. Lee's replaced Houghton's at Fort William, 
and St. George's dragoons were stationed at Aberdeen and elsewhere on that coast. — Scots 
Magazine, vol. ix., p. 348. 



APPENDIX. 449 

Torcastle never was out of the country ; his letter to me is dated the 
14'h at Inveraray. 

From my friend at Dumblane I am advised that he has got notice 
that one David Napier, a Messenger near Stirling, knows the hand 
writing of W"^ M^gregor, alias Drummond of Balhadie, and is in search 
of him, and I expect him at Edinburgh by the time I may have your 
Grace's answer to my last letter about Ross and Russell. 
I have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 24. 



XXIX. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinb"^ 25 April 1747. 

My Lord Duke, 

David Napier, the person I looked for from Stirling shire, 
arrived this day, and I have enclosed a copy of his Examination ; had 
he seen Wi" Drummond write his name or could have sworn directly to 
his hand writing, I should in consequence of your Grace's first orders 
have endeavoured to have sent him along with M^ Rose to London, But 
as that is not the case I wait your Grace's further directions. I have 
sent enclosed one of W™ Drummonds letters referred to both in Russell 
and Napier's examinations. 

By letters from the West Highlands all is quiet there, and a good 
many of the common people, even the Camerons, have voluntarily taken 
the oath to the Government calculated to their taste, and say they 
think themselves bound, and are determined to act accordingly. 

The Sheriff of Argyll has got lately some intelligence of John 

15. P, Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 37. No. 14. 
LLL 



450 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Bayne, and are in hopes of laying hold of him by means of M"" Campbell 
of Airds and Cap*^ Campbell of Inverare. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 

My Lord Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed ; — Rd. May 4*. 

{Enclosure I.) 
Declaration of David Napier. 

25th April 1747. 

In presence of The Lord Justice Clerk Compeared David 
Napier, Messenger in Stirling, and being Interrogate if he knows 
and is acquainted with the hand writing and subscription of William 
Drummond younger of Balhaddie, Declares that in the course of his 
bussiness as a Messenger he has had frequently put into his hands 
Dilligences to execute against the said William Drummond, in which 
there being bills granted by him, the declarant had occasion to peruse 
them, by which means he is well acquainted with the said William 
Drummond's subscription, and Declares that he has frequently received 
letters from the said William Drummond with respect to the said 
Dilligences, the only purpose of which were craving delays, and as they 
contained no other thing material the Declarant never kept them, and 
there being produced to the Declarant Six letters wrote and signed 
by the said William Drummond to M^ Francis Russell, Merchant in 
Edinburgh, Declares that those letters appear to be the hand writing 
and subscription of the said William Drummond, being as he thinks 
the same with the above letters wrote by him to the Declarant, and the 
subscription the same with those to the Bills he had occasion to have 
in his custody as above mentioned, and this he declares to be truth. 

(Signed) DAVID NAPIER. 

Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's letter 
of April 25, 1747. 



APPENDIX. 451 

(Enclosure II.) 
William Drummond of Balhaldie to Francis Russell. 

Abbotshaugh, 14th May 1736. 

I am sorry that I happened not to be at home when your 
letter came ; it was sent after me, and I immediately wrote for 
your money, but it is not as yet come to my hand; so soon as it does, 
which I expect every day, it shall be sent you, and shall then write 
you fully. 

I am ever 

Your most obliged humble Servant 

W. DRUMMOND. 
To Mr Francis Russell, Merch^ 

at the sign of the black bull 
Edr. 

Endorsed : — Ed'' 4th April 1747. This is one of the letters to which 
Mr Francis Russell's Declaration of this date does 
relate. 

FRANCIS RUSSELL. 

25th April 1747. This is one of the letters to which M^ David 
Napier's declaration of this date does relate. 

DAVID NAPIER. 



XXX. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinbr 9 May 1747. 
12 at night. 
My Lord Duke, 

This Express is to acquaint your Grace of Lord Stairs death,^ 
which happened this night after a long indisposition, and I imagined 

1 S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 37. No. 17. 

^ At Queensberry House, Cannongate, Edinburgh. — Scots Magazine, vol. ix., p. 247. 



452 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

your Grace would be desirous to have the first notice. Lord Stairs 
friends wish your Grace thought it proper to send for Lord Loudoun, 
and carry him along with you when your Grace acquaints the King of 
this Event. 

I have the honour to be with the greatest respect, 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 
Endorsed : — Rd. 13th (by Express). 

XXXL 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Salton, 19 May 1747. 
My Lord Duke, 

I have the honour of your Grace's letter of the 15th, in 
which you are pleased to communicate to me his Majesty's inclinations, 
that the Earl of Hopetoun should succeed Lord Stair in his seat in 
Parliament, and desireing that my Endeavour may not be wanting to 
promote Lord Hopetoun's success on this occasion. 

In obedience to your Grace's Commands I have acquainted Lord 
Hopetoun of your Grace's directions to me, and suggested what is 
usually done on such occasions, and made his LoP the offer of my best 
endeavours for his service. 

As his LoP is possessed of so much property in this Country and 
so firmly attached to his Majesty's person and Government, and was so 
useful to his Royal Highness the Duke during the late wicked Rebellion, 
and is now so highly recommended, I am perswaded there will not be 
the least difficulty in his Lops success on this occasion. 
I have the honour to be with the greatest respect 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 
Endorsed : — Rd. 22. (by Dick). 

1 S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 37. No. 25. 



APPENDIX. 453 

XXXII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Salton, 29 Aug. 1747. 
My Lord Duke, 

I was honoured with your Grace's letter of the 7*^^ instant, 
containing His Majesty's most gracious pleasure that the late Lord 
Lovat's son, then prisoner in the Castle of Edinburgh, should on account 
of his ill state of health be enlarged from his confinement, and com- 
manding me to give the necessary directions for discharging him from 
the Castle of Edinburgh, and sending him under a proper guard to 
Glasgow, where it is His Majesty's gracious pleasure that he should 
remain without any guard, upon his entering into an Engagement not 
to stir out of the limits of that Town without His Majestys express 
permission for that purpose. 

The moment I received these orders I gave the necessary directions 
for their being punctually executed, and I send your Grace enclosed a 
cop3^ of the Engagement which I took from Simon Eraser, son to the 
late Lord Lovat, and upon my application. General Churchill sent an 
Officer of His Majesty's Troops alongst with him to Glasgow. 

I send your Grace enclosed copys of the Protests taken at the last 
Election of the Peers with respect to the disputed Title and Peerage of 
Stair. 

I also take the liberty to send your Grace enclosed a copy of a 
letter I received from Sir Gilbert Elliot, Lord Minto, one of the Lords 
of Session, to which I beg leave to refer. The facts set forth in it are 
consistent with my knowledge ; upon Lord Hyndfoord's brother's coming 
down recommended in the manner your Grace will see by a copy of M^ 
Carmichael's letter to me enclosed, I did apply by Lord Minto to get 
M^ Waugh's interest in the Burgh of Selkirk to M^ Carmichael, which 
he had, and would have effectually secured the Election to him had not 
our own Artillery been turned against us, and had we not been over- 
powered by the root of all evil, and therefore as M"" Waugh's merit is 
the same, and as he can be of further use, I presume to submit it to 

^ S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 37. No. 52. 



454 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

your Grace if his having this small office of Commissar)^ of Peebles be 
not a proper way to reward him and encourage your friends. 

Permit me to congratulate your Grace on the success of the Army 
of the King's Allies in Italy which happened so opportunely, and also of 
the Glorious Stand that has been made at Bergenopzoom to the wicked 
and ambitious views of France by the judicious and seasonable supplys 
sent to that place by the conduct and vigilence of His Royal Highness 
the Duke. 

I have the honour to be with the greatest respect, 

My Lord Duke 

Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed: — Rd. Sep^ 4th 

• 

{Enclosiire I.) 

Obligation by the Master of Lovat. 

I Simon Eraser, Eldest son of the late Lord Lovat, now prisoner 
in the Castle of Edinburgh — Whereas It has pleased His Majesty Most 
Graciously to Signify his Royal pleasure by a Letter from His Grace 
The Duke of Newcastle, Principal Secretary of State, To The Right 
Honourable The Lord Justice Clerk bearing date at Whitehall the 
Seventh current, that I be released from my present confinement in the 
said Castle and sent to the City of Glasgow therein to remain without 
any guard at my entering into an Engagement not to stir out of the 
limits thereof without His Majesty's Express permission for that pur- 
pose. Therefore I hereby solemnly and faithfully promise and engage 
how soon I shall be transported to the City of Glasgow to remain within 
the said City and not to stir out of the limits thereof without His 
Majesty's express permission for that purpose. In witness whereof I 
have written and subscribed these presents within the said Castle of 
Edinburgh this Twelvth day of August, One thousand seven hundred 
and fourty seven years. ^ Before these witnesses, William Jackson and 

■^ He set out accordingly for Glasgow on August 15, 1747. — Scots Magazine, vol. ix., p. 402. 



APPENDIX. 455 

Lauchlan Grant, both writers in Edinburgh, and William Fraser Junior 
writer to the Signet. 

(Signed) Simon Fraser. Lauchlan Grant, witnes. Will. Fraser, 
witnes. W"^ Jackson, witnes. 

Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's letter 
of Augt 2g, 1747. 

{Enclosure II.) 

Protest on behalf of the Earl of Stair. 

At Edinburgh the First day of August One thousand seven hundred 
and fourty seven years In a meeting of the Peers of Scotland 
assembled and convened within the Palace of Holyrood house 
for Electing the Sixteen Peers of Scotland who are to sit in 
the House of Lords in the ensuing Parliament of Great Britain 
pursuant to the Acts of Parliament Ratifying and confirming 
the Treaty of Union betwixt the two Kingdoms of Scotland 
and England. 

I William Earl of Dumfries as specially Authorised and Com- 
missiond to the effect after mentioned by James now Earl of Stairs 
second lawful son procreat of the marriage betwixt the deceast Colonel 
William Dalrymple immediat younger brother to John Earl of Stair 
deceast, and Penelope Countess of Dumfries Spouse to the said Colonel 
William Dalrymple conform to and in terms of the Commission now 
produced by me under the Seal and subscription of the said James Earl 
of Stairs dated at Stranraer the Twenty fifth day of July one thousand 
seven hundred and fourty seven years constituting and appointing me 
his lawful and undoubted proxy and commissioner to meet and conveen 
with the other Peers of Scotland within the Palace of Holyrood house 
at Edinburgh this first day of August and there for him and in his name 
to elect and vote sixteen Peers to represent the Peers of Scotland in the 
House of Lords in the ensuing Parliament Declaring the same to be 
as valid as if the said James Earl of Stairs were personally present and 
had named and chosen them himself and generally to do all and sundry 
other things necessary to be done towards the said Election which by 
the Laws and Constitution of the United Kingdom he the said James 



456 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Earl of Stairs might lawfully do. As also in terms of and conform to a 
letter under the hand and subscription of the said James Earl of Stairs 
dated at Stranraer on the Twenty fifth day of July, one thousand seven 
hundred and fourty seven years now also produced and read in the said 
meeting whereby in consideration for its being inconvenient for the said 
James Earl of Stairs to attend the ensuing Election of the Peers for 
Scotland he authorizes and Commissions me in case Captain John 
Dalrymple Eldest son of the deceast George Dalrymple Esquire one of 
the Barons of Exchequer or any other should pretend to take or use the 
title and dignity of Earl of Stairs at the said Election of Peers not only 
to protest there against in his name but to do every other thing for him 
in relation thereto that he might or could do if personally present, And 
whereas in this meeting of the Peers of Scotland in order to give their votes 
in the Election of the sixteen Peers to the ensuing Parliament of Great 
Britain, The said Captain John Dalrymple has not only appeared and 
taken upon him the Character title and dignity of Earl of Stair but as 
such has presumed to claim and take a vote in this present Election, I 
the said William Earl of Dumfries in name and behalf of the aforesaid 
James Earl of Stair and as thereto specially authorized and com- 
missioned by him Do not only vote and make choice of the sixteen 
Peers contained in a list now given in and subscribed by me as Com- 
missioner for the said James Earl of Stair to be the Representatives of 
the Peers of Scotland in the ensuing Parliament of Great Britain, But 
do protest against the said Captain John Dalrymple for assuming to 
himself the Character, Title and dignity of Earl of Stair that no regard 
be had to the vote of the said Captain John Dalrymple under that title 
and dignity in this or any subsequent Election, but that the sixteen 
Peers now elected by the majority of Legal Votes counting the Vote of 
the said James Earl of Stair my Constituent shall be returned as the 
sixteen Peers legally elected, and that the said Captain John Dalrymple 
may be liable as law will to the said James Earl of Stairs my constituent 
for this usurpation and encroachment upon his undoubted right and 
title of Peerage in such form and manner and from such other arguments 
and considerations as he shall be advised may be most beneficial and 
conducive thereto. His right and title to this Peerage is founded upon a 
charter of resignation and infeftment under the Great Seal in the year 
1707 by Her late Majesty Queen Anne in favours of John last Earl of 



APPENDIX. 457 

Stair and his heirs male lawfully to be procreated of his body, which 
failing to Mr. William Dalrymple immediately younger brother to the 
said John Earl of Stair and to the second son procreated or to be 
procreated of the marriage betwixt the said William Dalrymple and 
Penelope Countess of Dumfries. John Earl of Stair died without issue 
male of his body, M"" William Dalrymple afterward designed Colonel 
William Dalrymple his immediat younger brother is in like manner 
dead whereby the title of Peerage now vests in the person of his second 
son procreated of the marriage betwixt him and Penelope Countess of 
Dumfries, for albeit by the foresaid Charter under the Great Seal there 
is a faculty granted to the said John Earl of Stair failing heirs male of 
his own body, To nominat and appoint by a writing under his hand at 
any time in his life, et etiam in articulo mortis, such person or persons 
as he should think proper descending of the then deceast James Viscount 
of Stair who should not only succeed to the lands specified and contained 
in the said Charter, but also to the Dignity and Peerage of Stair, and tho' 
it may be also true that in pursuance of the aforesaid faculty the said 
John Earl of Stair by certain deeds or writings by him executed may 
have nominated and appointed the said Captain John Dalrymple failing 
heirs male of his own body to succeed to the aforesaid title and dignity 
of Peerage, There is just cause to think that such faculty and power 
would neither be granted by the Crown nor exercised by any subject. 
That it is a part of the Prerogative Royal to confer titles of Peerage 
which the Crown cannot be divested of or transfer to any subject and 
that tho' the exercise of this faculty was limited and confined to the 
descendants of the body of James Viscount of Stair it was still giving a 
power to create a person to be a Peer who could not have succeeded to 
that Peerage either by tenor of the original patent or by the natural 
course of succession. This power or faculty which therefore must 
appear to have been obtained from the Crown by obreption being held 
pro not adjecto limited and devised in the event which now exists to 
the second son procreated of the marriage betwixt Colonel William 
Dalrymple and Penelope of Dumfries. James Dalrymple now Earl of 
Stair is the second son of that marriage and as such intitled to this 
right and title of Peerage. Wherefore, I the said William Earl of 
Dumfries Do protest in manner and to the effect above mentioned, 
whereupon I take Instruments in the hands of you, 

MMM 



458 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

The Clerk to this meeting of Election and to require that my 

protest with the commission and letters above mentioned may be fairly 

entered in the minuits of this Election. These things I do place and 

date foresaid. 

(Signed) DUMFRIES. 

Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's Letter 
of Aug. 29, 1747. 



(Enclosure III.) 

Schedule of the Protest of John Earl of Stair. 

By Charter and Patent under the Great Seal bearing date 
the 27* of February 1707 proceeding upon the Resignation of John late 
Earl of Stair in the hands of Queen Anne authorized by Her Royal Sign 
Manuel Her Majesty Gave and granted the Titles and dignity of Earl 
of Stair, Viscount of Dalrymple and Lord of Newliston, Glenline and 
Stranraer in favour of the said John Earl of Stair and the heirs male to 
be procreat of his body, whom failing to such person or persons being 
descended of the body of the deceast James Viscount of Stair as the said 
John Earl of Stair should nominate and appoint by a writ under his 
hand at any time in his life et etiam si in Articulo Mortis, which Charter 
was Ratified by an Act of Parliament of Scotland Anno 1707. 

By two Deeds executed by the said John Earl of Stair, the one 
bearing date 21st May 1739 and the other the 31st March 1747, His 
Lordship appointed me John, now Earl of Stair (therein designed 
Captain John Dalrymple Eldest son of the deceast George Dalrymple 
Esquire one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, 
Brother german to the said now deceast John Earl of Stair) to succeed to 
him in the foresaid titles and dignity of Earl of Stair &c. 

In virtue of the above titles I have the sole right to the titles and 
dignity of Earl of Stair &c. and as such claim my vote at this Election 
and protest that the Vote of no other person pretending to be Earl of 
Stair be received. 

(Signed) STAIR. 

Endorsed : — In L^ Justice Clerk's Letter 
of Aug* 29, 1747, 



Appendix. 459 

{Enclosure IV.) 

Lord Minto to the Lord Justice-Clerk. 

My Lord, 

I have just learned that M^ Rutherfoord who was Commissary 
of Peebles died last night. His post I believe was worth about ^£"40 
p. ann. I beg leave to recommend to your Lordship a near kinsman of 
mine, William Waugh, Sheriff and Town Clerk of Selkirk. He has 
been very active in M' Carmichael's interest and must have carried that 
Town for him if it had not been for such arguments as you know people 
of that sort seldom are able to resist. He has made such discoveries 
since the Election as will be of the highest consequence to M^ 
Carmichael, and M^ Alston the writer can inform your Lordship what 
they are. M^ Waugh's Education makes him very fit for that office and 
I can take it upon me to answer for his gratitude on all occasions if 
your Lordship will be so good as to recommend him on this occasion. 
I hope you'l excuse this freedom and believe me to be 

My Dr Lord 
Your most obedient & most humble Servant, 

(Signed) GILB. ELLIOT. 

This I write in haste for fear of accidents. Minto August 25, 1747. 

Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's letter 
of Aug. 29, 1747. 

{Enclosure V.) 

James Carmichael to the Lord Justice-Clerk. 

Edinburgh, June ig, 1747. 
My Lord, 

I beg leave to inform your Lordship that I am this moment 
arrived here from London, and as I was not so lucky as to find you in 
Town I am obliged to trouble you with this in order to have your 
Lordship's directions in what method I am to proceed, as I don't care 
to take any steps in relation to the Election without your advice. The 
day before I left London, which was last Saturday, I saw both the 



466 TrtE ALBfiMARLfi PAPERS. 

Duke of Argyle and M'' Pelham, who ordered me to set out directly for 
Scotland. M"" Pelham bid me go directly to Lord Hopetoun and tell 
him that he had wrote to him and would soon write again in my behalf 
for his interest in Linlithgow and desired Lord Findlater that morning 
to do the same. I shall go to my Lord as soon as this Express returns 
if your Lordship approves of it. The Duke and M"" Pelham assured me 
that I should be thoroughly supported by their interest. I shall be 
greatly obliged to your Lordship if you will let me know who I am to 
advise with here in your absence, as I know none that I can confide in 
except my cousin M^ Carmichael. I have all the reason in the world 
to expect Lord March's interest by what I have learned from M^ 
Crawfurd, if it is agreeable to the Duke of Argyle. 
I beg an immediat Answer to this and am 

My Lord 
Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble Servant 

(Signed) JA. CARMICHAEL. 

Endorsed : — In the L*^ Justice Clerk's Letter 
of Augt 29, 1747. 

XXXIII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinbr 4 Ocf 1747. 
My Lord Duke, 

Upon the Pretender's son's makeing his escape from the 
North of Scotland hee promised his abettors to return soon to them 
with a Considerable Force, and left money to be distributed among them 
for their support in the meantime. The Agents of that wicked and 
desperate Gang have from time to time endeavoured thereby to keep 
up a Spirite in their party, which gradually decayed, till of late, and par- 
ticularly since Bergenopzooms falling into the Hands of our Enemies 
in the shamefuU manner it did.^ The agents of that Diabolickal party 

1 S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 38. No. 2. 

^Various accounts of the fall of Bergen-op-Zoom are printed in Scots Magazine, vol. ix., 
pp. 442 et seq. 



AtTENDiX. 461 

have turned more noisy and insolent. They now say and endeavour to 
perswade one another that the young Pretender is to marry a Daughter 
of Prussia, in consequence whereof the King of Prussia in confederacy 
with the King of France are to set him on the Throne of Great Britain ; 
That the lad has for his Quotta agreed to furnish one Million in money 
and Ten thousand men with Transports & convoys &c. And it is now 
reported that severalls of those concerned in the late Rebellion are 
returned to the Highlands, particularly Locheil, and the person who is 
commonly called Lord John Drummond. As nothing of this kind in 
our too critical Situation is to be neglected, I have employed proper 
persons to get Intelligence what is transacting among the Disaffected 
in the north, and desired them to make particular Enquiry if Locheil 
or Lord John Drummond or any of those concerned in the late 
Rebellion have returned from abroad, if there are any Caballs or 
secret meetings, any strangers or persons in disguise going about the 
Countrey, & what are the Reports, beliefs, inclinations, Dispositions and 
Expectations of the disaffected. I have also concerted with provost 
Drummond to keep a strick eye over the Jacobites at Edenburgh and 
watch their motions, & shall have the Honour from time to time to 
transmitt to your Grace what intelligence or Information I may happen 
to receive. 

I do not think that the Times ever had so bad an appearance in 
my remembrance, not even in the end of the Tory administration when 
it cost your Grace so much to keep up the Whig spirite, which was then 
united firm & strong and thereby carried our Grand point. 

The King of Prussia at present is a great card, we can hardly buy 
him too dear, as it is in his power to get us a good Peace after an un- 
successfull War, and thereby turn the Tables on the French & ballance 
the Treaty of Utrecht. 

I have the Honour to be with the utmost Respect 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient & most Humble servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 8'h. 



462 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

XXXIV. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edenburgh 20th Oct^ 1747. 

My Lord Duke, 

I had the Honour to write to your Grace the 17th in answer 
so far to your Grace's commands of the 8*^^ and now in further prosecu- 
tion of your orders I beg leave to send your Grace inclosed a Copy of 
the Letter I have wrote to the Sheriffs of the Countys most Suspected. 

In order to exert the utmost Force of the Law for suppressing all 
practices whereby the Quiet of his Majesty's Government ma}^ be dis- 
turbed, and for bringing to punishment all those who are concerned in 
Treasonable or Illegal practices, It will be necessary that we have new 
Commissions of the Peace, excluding all Jacobites and their adherents, 
and even all low little persons who render that usefull and Honourable 
office contemptible, and often hinders the people of greatest Character 
and best qualifyed from acting. It will also be necessary that in the 
County of Inverness and some other of the disaffected Countys where 
it may not be easy to find a sufficient number of proper persons to be 
Justices of Peace, that some of the officers of the Army may be named 
Justices of the peace. 

It will also be necessary that the Deputy Sheriffs to be named by 
his Majesty be all true Whigs and well qualifyed for their office, and 
that where there are such persons now employed who have exerted 
themselves Remarkably in his Majestys Service and the Service of 
the Army and in suppressing Jacobitism, that they should be continued 
and encouraged. As the County of Inverness is of great Extent and 
contains the greatest part of the Countreys possessed by the Rebell 
clanns, it will require more than one Itinerant Deputy sherriff, at least 
for some time, to put the Laws in execution there, and 'tho the time 
for nameing the Deputy sherriffs is not yet come, yet if the choice was 
made, the present sheriff might grant a Commission in the mean time, 
For at present the Law takes very little place in that County. 

I send your Grace inclosed a Copy of the Letters I mentioned in 

1 S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 38. No. 10. 



APPENDIX. 463 

my last, which by some mistake I am affraid was omitted to be sent by 
my last, A Blunder I beg your Grace may pardon. I have had no 
sort of Intelligence since my Letter of the 17*^. 

I shall with great pleasure obey his Majestys Commands in giveing 
Generall Bland ^ all possible assistance in the Execution of his Majestys 
orders, as I have from experience with pleasure observed that his great 
points in view are the Peace and Tranquillity of the Kingdom & the 
Suppression of Jacobitism. His cool and steddy Behaviour has got him 
the good will and esteem of all his Majestys freinds in this Countrey, 
and I am in hopes that something good beyond what I dare at present 
venture to say will attend his Majestys wise choice in appointing him 
Commander in cheif of his Forces in Scotland at this Critical time. 

I have the Honour to be with the utmost Respect 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient & most humble servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 26*^^. 



(Enclosure I.) 
The Lord Justice-Clerk to some of the Sheriffs. 

Edinburgh 17th October 1747. 

Sir, 

His Majesty having lately received Accounts of the Insolent 
behaviour of the Jacobites, and that in many parts of Scotland the true 
friends of the Government and those who have the most meritoriously 
distinguished themselves in the support of it have been on many occa- 
sions oppressed and insulted by the Jacobites and their adherents, and 
that some of the persons attainted of High Treason have returned from 
abroad, and that many of the most Notorious Rebels are known to be 
lurking about in different places, and that the Acts for suppressing 
nonjuring Meeting houses have not been duly executed by the officers 

^ He had in September been appointed Commander-in-Chief in Scotland. He arrived in 
Edinburgh on October 31. — Scots Magazine, vol. ix., p. 500. 



464 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

of the Law, at least that they have not been dilHgent in observing and 
discovering the attempts that have been made to defeat the intention 
of these wise and necessary Laws. 

Whereupon I have had the Honour to receive His Majesty's Com- 
mands by a Letter from His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, His Majesty's 
principall Secretary of State, to desire and Require that you would 
immediately make the strictest enquiry into these matters, and exerce 
the utmost force of the Law for suppressing all practices whereby the 
quiet of His Majesty's Government may be in danger of being dis- 
turbed, and for bringing to punishment all those who are concerned in 
such treasonable proceedings, and particularly that you would use your 
utmost endeavour to discover and secure any persons that may be 
lurking within your bounds, who were either attainted of High Treason 
or were concerned in the late Rebellion, and are either excepted by 
name or under some general description in the late Act of Indemnity, 
and that you would make particular enquiry into the conduct of the 
Jacobites, and whether there are any Indications of a design to give any 
disturbance to the Government, and that you take particular care that 
the Acts for Suppressing Nonjuring meeting houses be complyed with 
according to the true intention of the same, and for that purpose that 
you enquire carefully into all attempts that have been made to elude 
the design thereof. And it is His Majesty's particular orders that you 
should transmit to me constant accounts of what you shall do in con- 
sequence of these orders. 

Give me leave on this occasion to advise you not to show or Com- 
municate the orders you have now received to any person whatever 
except so far as is necessary for putting them in Execution, lest it may 
be interpreted by some persons to be done to disappoint the execution 
of them, and in the next place when you get Information that any of 
His Majesty's good Subjects who have meritoriously distinguished them- 
selves in support of His Majesty's Government, have been or may be 
oppressed and insulted by the Jacobites and their adherents. You are 
not to give over your enquiry upon hearing that the matter is transacted 
by the privat partys, because it is not in the power of any privat subject 
to remitt the Injury done to the Publick. And lastly, that in searching 
for Rebels you are not to confine yourself to suspected places, because 
it is not impossible that in some of His Majesty's subjects not disaffected 



APPENDIX. 465 

an ill-judged tenderness may have got the better of their duty to their 
King and Country. 

■I am &c. 
Endorsed : — Copy sent to L* Gen' Bland ^ the 30*^^. 

In the Ld Justice Clerk's of Oct. 20* 1747. 

{Enclosure II.) 

Intelligence. 

It is not in my apprehension at all probable that L*^ John Drum- 
mond should be sent to negotiat in favours of another Rebellion, as I 
know him to be extremely unpopular among the Jacobites. I have 
heard them speaking in the bitterest manner against him and represent 
him as a betrayer of their Cause. This is their sentiment in the South 
and in the North. But I was told a story by way of a great secret by 
a Jacobite who visits at Gask and other Gentlemen's houses in that 
neighbourhood, that Lochiel was certainly in this Country, That about 
three weeks ago he had landed at Peterhead with one or two more 
whose names I did not hear of, and that he had brought a very great 
sum of money along with him. That he had gone up into the Highlands 
and had' dispersed part of that money and was preparing matters for 
the reception of a body of French Troops who are expected into the 
Country. Tis certain that the Jacobites are uppish and have their 
Cabals ; one of the chiefs of that character in Perth, reckoned not at 
all a forward man but much in their secrets, came last week and in- 
spected their Meeting house of Perth and told that it behooved to be 
taken good care of, for very soon there would be use for it. A Gentle- 
man who has been in three Rebellions and now is pardoned told lately 
that very soon he would have sweet revenge on this and the other 
person who had acted as he thought a harsh part to folks in his way. 
This fellow is of the Strathearn Club. However it is only a Clatter 
among the people in this Country, flowing perhaps from the fears of 
some and the hopes of others that there is to be an Invasion, and as far 
as I at present know, except the Story of Lochiel, which I cannot help 
believing, as the person who told me is of their Counciles, but he would 

1 Bland was gazetted Lieutenant-General on October 10, 1747. 

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466 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

not tell me the grounds of his own perswasion. I shall lay myself out 
as much as I can to get Information concerning what passes in this 
Country among the Torys and shall not faill to acquaint you as things 
occur. 

Endorsed^: — Copy sent to L* Genl Bland Oct. 30th 

In the L,^ Justice Clerks of Oct. 20, 1747. 

XXXV. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edr 31 Oct. 1747. 
My Lord Duke, 

Munday last came on P' Stewarts Tryall,^ when his Councell 
plead that the Tryall could not proceed till he had Damages for its 
being put off by the blunder of the Agent for the Crown ; being in this 
overuled by the Court, the same Interloquiture on the Relevancy 
formerly, pronounced was renewed & the Court adjourned till Tuesday 
at 8 in the morning. 

I thought it my Duty, however unable, to offer my assistance at 
this long Tryall to my Bretheren, but they, convinced that I was no 
wayes able to bear any such fatigue, would not permit me to enter the 
Court, However I continued within reach in case of accidents. 

Munday night my Bretheren mett at my House and as on such 
Tryalls much time is often spent in hearing Councell on Objections to 
Witnesses, we sent for the Lawers on both sides and had these points 
settled as far as was practicable. After the Lawers withdrew, we talked 
of proper persons to be on the Jury, and care was taken to exclude all 
such as were suspected of partiality, and as I was affraid that severalls 

^ S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 38. No. 15. 

^Archibald Stewart, Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1745 when Prince Charles gained 
possession of the city, had been arrested on Nov. 30, 1745, on suspicion of high treason, and 
had been committed to the Tower on the following December 13. He was admitted to bail on 
Jan. 23, 1747. On July 13 the Court of Justiciary ordered informations for and against him to 
be lodged, and on August 11 appointed the trial to take place on October 26. The progress 
of the trial is detailed in the Scots Magazine, vol. ix. passim, and at length in A true Account 
of the Behaviour and Conduct of Archibald Stewart, late Lord Provost of Edinburgh (Lond., 
1748). 



APPENDIX. 467 

very proper to be on the Jury might be absent (as the Fine is only 
^5. II. i^) I proposed that if such a number should absent themselves 
so as a right Jury could not be found, The Court should adjourn for 
one day and Grant Caption against the absent Jury men, 

Tuesday morning when the Court mett severalls we designed for 
the Jury did not appear & could not be found, particularly S^ Jo. Inglis 
of Cramond, John Watson of Muirhouse, Brother in Law to Lord 
Armston and Brother to Collonel Watson (a good man), Quarter Master 
Gen'i in Scotland, Baillie Dundas, Father to our Commissary Generall, 
and others very zealous in their professions, and ready to find fault 
with others for want of Zeal, but when the Cause of our Countrey is at 
Stake they carefully avoid giveing themselves any trouble. 

Upon this Event the Court proposed to adjourn & grant Caption 
against such of y^ Jury as did not appear, but at the request of the 
pursurer and Defender, both loaded with the great weight of such a 
Tryall, and upon the pannells renounceing his Priveledge of a landed 

Jury, for it was more difficult to find a sufficient number of good men 
among the Landed men than among the Burgesses what attended much 
better, The Court proceeded, and as I belive named a very good Jury, 
'tho perhaps not so good as if the whole Jury had attended. 

Aftei- a sederunt of 40 herers [?] on the night betwixt Wedensday & 
Thursday, upon application of the Jury who declared it was utterly 
impossible for them to subsist any longer without some intermission, 
and with the Consent of the pursuer & Defender, and the Jury finding 
caution under the penalty of £300 each, the Court adjournd till Thurs- 
day at II o'clock, when they proceeded in the Tryall, & the Examina- 
tion of Witnesses on both sides was finished this Morning about one 
o'clock ; the L^^ Advocate spoke two hours & a half, M^" Lockhart 2 
hours, so that the Jury was inclosed only about six o'clock this morning 
and are ordered to return their verdict on Munday at ten a Clock. The 
Advocate writes no doubt to his Grace the D. of Newcastle. I thought 
your Grace would be glad to know these out Lines in the meantime ; 
next post I shall send a Copy of the verdict w^h I hope will be agree- 
able to the provost. 

I am with the greatest respect 
Your Grace's most obedient humble servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 



46S THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

XXXVI. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edenburgh, 3^ Nov"^ i747- 

My Lord Duke, 

On Sunday morning I received and immediately carried to 
Generall Bland The great and good news your Grace was pleased to 
communicate to me of the Signal Victory^ obtained by his Majesty's 
Fleet over that of France By the takeing Six of their Capitall men 
of War, which has happened most opportunely, and which I hope shall 
have very great and good consequences, not only to depress the mad 
Spirit of Jacobitism, by cutting off their wicked hopes. But must also 
affect the French in so sensible a Manner as to humble them into a 
peace safe and honourable for Us, or at least strip them of any more 
Support from Spain. 

I send your Grace inclosed Copys of three Letters which contain 
what intelligence I have lately had & which I communicated to Gen^^ 
Bland, By which it would seem that Clunie M^Pherson is still lurking 
in the Highlands ; the seizeing of him I have always considered as very 
material for his Majesty's service. 

1 had this morning the Honour of your Graces Commands of the 
30* Oct^, & shall only by this post take the Liberty to mention to your 
Grace that some time agoe in obedience to your Grace's commands I 
sent in one Bundle Copys of all the Commissions of the peace in Scot- 
land as they now stand, which took me above a Month in Collecting 
from the severall Countys, and if your Grace is pleased to direct that 
Bundle to be returned to me, it would save much time in my setting 
about to obey your Grace's Commands with respect to the Lists of the 
Justices of peace. 

Lord Advocate tells me that he has sent your Grace a full account 
of the Tryall of M'" Stewart, late provost of Edenburgh. The unsuccess- 
ful Issue whereof gives me great pain.^ The Behaviour of the Jacobites 

^ S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 38. No. 19. 

2 On October 14 Admiral Hawke fell in with and engaged a French fleet of merchantmen 
and men-of-war bound from Rochelle to the West Indies. His despatch is in Scots Magazine, 
vol. ix., p. 486. 

•'On Nov. 2 the jury delivered a unanimous verdict of " Not guilty" against Stewart. — 
Scots Magazine, vol. ix., p. 501. 



APPENDIX. 469 

& their deluded partizans on this occasion has been most insolent and 

does not abate, as your Grace will see by a paragraph in the inclosed 

newspaper. I was this day w*^ Gen'^ Bland, Lord Advocate & provost 

Drummond, when it was agreed to have a strict eye on their proceedings, 

that in case they laid themselves open to the Law that they be laid hold 

of and immediately prosecuted with the utmost Rigour of the Law. 

I have the Honour to be with the utmost Respect 

My Lord Duke 

Your Grace's most obedient & most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Endorsed : — Rd. g'h, 

(Enclosure I.) 
Donald Campbell to the Lord Justice-Clerk. 

Airds 25 Oct. 1747. 

My Lord, 

Having acquainted his Grace the Duke of Argile with any 
intelligence that came to my knowledge, I judged it unnecessary to 
trouble your Lordship on that head. 

I have nothing new since his Grace's departure, only a further 
Confirmation of Doctor Camron Locheyl's Brother's being in Lochabber, 
and am told that about a fortnight past, he and others of the Disaffected 
in that Neighbourhood, with some of the Clan M^Pherson from Bade- 
noch, had a Meating in Glenkindy near the head of Locherkaig. 

In consequence of Orders brought over by Doctor Camron, All 
those excepted from the Act of Indemnity have had Remittances from 
Clunie Mcpherson, of which Camron of Torecastle and Stewart of 
Ardsheall received each £"100. 

Whatever be the Cause, it is certain the Disaffected to the North- 
ward never were in greater Spirits or stronger expectations than at 
present. They impute to the late Storms that there was not a landing 
before now. 

That these Countries were not eifectually disarmed is well known, 
and now many appear openly with their Arms. 

Yours &c. 
Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's 

of Nov. 3, 1747. 



470 TiiE AlbemarLe papers. 

(Enclosure II.) 

The Collector of Customs at Fort William to the Lord 

Justice-Clerk. 

Fortwilliam, Oct. 26, 1747. 

I have endeavoured to learn all that passes amongst the Disaffected 
in and about this Bounds. It seems they still Entertain great Hopes 
of a Speedy landing from France. There are Couriers going and coming 
'twixt the Disaffected in this Kingdom and those abroad. At the break- 
ing up of the Camp lately at Fort Augustus ^ there was one McDonald 
in the Country, who was sent by Lord Ogilvie &c to Clunic McPherson 
and others of that Stamp ; he continued about 20 days in the Braes of 
Glengary and Badenoch ; its now thought he is returned to France. 

Bishop McDonald and one Ocolgan a popish Priest are soon 
expected from abroad with Dispatches to that Party, who are very 
much Elevated and in topp Spirits since the taking of Bergen-op-zoom. 

Endorsed : — In the h^ Justice Clerk's 
of Nov. 3, 1747. 

' {Enclosure III.) 
Mr Douglas to the Lord Justice-Clerk. 

Fortwilliam, 27 Ocf 1747. 

I believe I can assure your Lordship that Lochail has never yet 
been in the Highlands that any one of his Clan knows of, neither is 
there any one of them will believe he has set his foot on British Ground ; 
nor will he 'till he does it with a Considerable force : this I know was 
His Declarations to them at his going off, and further, that as a token 
he was to come, his Brother Arch^^ was to be sent before him to give 
them notice, which he has yet not done, Tho it is Currant in the Country 
that both of them and some others are in the Highlands. Yet I am 
strongly assured by those I depend on, that there is not one as yet 

^ The camp at Fort Augustus broke up about September lo, 1747. Cf. Scots Magazine, 
vol. ix., p. 453. 

^ Dr. Archibald Cameron. 



APPENDIX. 



471 



come amongst them, and I think I am not Imposed on. There has been 
several petty Gentlemen with Clunie M^Pherson that came from France; 
their bussiness with him Cheifly related to the Money he has in Charge, 
and to order a little of it to be given to the Disaffected to keep them in 
Spirit, and I am told that Stewart of Ardsheal and Cameron of Torcastle 
both got of the Money lately. One of those That I heard was with 
Mcpherson was one McDonald who is of the western part of this 
Country, and was brought up in France, But did not act in the 
Rebellion ; this McDonald came into the Braes of Rannaich among the 
People of his name. And another who I was told has been with 
Mcpherson is one Drummond, Son to Balhaldie, and is Lochails rela- 
tion ; this Drummond assures one of the Clan Cameron who saw him, 
that their Cheif was not taken care of by the French Court in the 
manner they imagined or that he himself expected. But withall that 
they might expect to see him and a very Considerable number of Troops 
about Christmass, and this is the reigning hopes of these Wretches 
(that meditate their own ruin), and sooner they expect none to appear ; 
they had the same hopes last Year, and after Christmass they dayly 
expected to see Lochails Brother, who was to be the forerunner of the 
Expedition, As to Lochail's being about to raise a Reg* of Highlanders 
or Scotch upon the Frontiers there never was any truth in it, nor in a 
thousand other Reports that are industriously spread in the Highlands 
to keep the disaffected in Spirit. 

I am my Lord 

Yours &c. 
Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's 

of Nov. 3, 1747. 

XXXVII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh ye 5th Nov. 1747. 
My Lord Duke, 

In the letter I had the honour to write to your Grace of the 
y^, I took notice of the insolent behaviour of the Jacobites and their 

1 S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 38. No. 22, 



4/2 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

adherents upon the Jury's returning their verdict not guilty in the case 
of Mr Stuart late Provost of Edinburgh ; and their further proceedings 
by an impudent and insolent advertisement in the News papers for a 
publick meeting and rejoiceing in the Baxters Hall upon that account. 
The Newspaper came to my hand as I was writing and I enclosed it to 
your Grace. ^ 

After several methods were tried without success to prevent such an 
incendiary meeting, I met yesterday morning with Lord Advocate and 
Provost Drummond, when it was agreed that the Provost should call 
together the Magistrates, and that they should order the Baxters or 
Bakers Hall to be shut up and a Guard placed to prevent such an illegal 
Meeting ; how soon this was publickly known the courage of M^ Stuarts 
friends cooled, the arguments formerly used appeared in a stronger light, 
and they gave up their mad project, of which notice is taken in the 
enclosed newspaper, and everything continues peaceable and quiet ; 
however, we keep a strict look out upon their behaviour. 

General Bland and I thought it our duty to let your Grace know 
the defeat of this daring and insolent project by the time the ordinary 
post brings an account of the attempt of it. 

This Bakers Hall is let by that Corporation to a Dancing Master, 
and they were so provoked when they heard of the use that was to be 
made of it, that they were, as I am credibly informed, resolved to have 
driven M^ Stewart and his friends out of their Hall had not their meeting 
been other ways prevented. 

I have sent herewith a letter from General Bland and another from 
Lord Advocate to your Grace. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect 

My Lord Duke 

Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 8, by Express. 

1 It is not in the bundle. 



APPENDIX. 473 

(Enclosure.) 

The Edinburgh Evening Courant, Thursday November 5, 

1747. 

The Meeting of the Friends of M^ Stuart, which was advertised in 
our Paper of Tuesday the 3^ Instant as intended to have been held in 
the Baxter's Hall last Night, did not hold. The Lord Provost was 
advised that he might, lawfully, forbid such a Meeting, and declared his 
Resolution not to suffer it, and we are informed that M^ Stuart and his 
Friends laid aside the Design. 

Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's 
of Nov. 5, 1747. 

XXXVIII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh 21 Nov. 1747. 
My Lord Duke, 

In obedience to your Grace's Commands, M"" Bland and I 
have had the execution of the Act for disarming the Highlands under 
our consideration, and I have prepared and delivered to M"" Bland the 
Form of the Summonds, which we are of opinion should contain or 
narrate the whole Act of Parliament [which] is but in the hands of 
very few. These Summondses may be printed and may be all issued 
by General Bland, so that his Majesty needs not appoint any other 
person for that purpose, but neither General Bland nor any one other 
person can attend at all the different places that necessarily must be 
appointed for delivering up the Arms ; and therefore it would be con- 
venient that General Bland had power from time to time to appoint the 
persons who can most conveniently receive these Arms. The Kings 
Warrant gives the General no such power, and the question is whether 
the words of the statute, which are To deliver the Arms to such person or 
persons appointed by his Majesty, Do authorise his Majesty to give a 
warrant to General Bland to appoint other persons whom he shall think 

^ S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 38. No. 30, 
000 



474 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

proper to receive in the Arms at the proper places, and if it does, it is 
proper that a new warrant be granted to Gen^ Bland in these Forms, 
other wise M^" Bland must transmit the names of persons he thinks fit 
to be employed in that service at each station, to the end that they may 
have warrants directly from his Majesty. For it appears necessary that 
each summonds contain the name of the person who is to receive the 
Arms, as well as the place at which they are to be delivered. 

I take the liberty to send your Grace Copy of a Memorial given in 
to me for one Captain Jas. Sinclair, and as his case seems to be pretty 
singular, I shall be glad to have your Grace's directions. 

Lord Findlater, as Sheriff of Banff, having stated some questions 
to me with relation to the Execution of the Laws against nonjuring 
Meeting Houses, which I put in the hands of the L^ Advocate as the 
proper Officer to give signed opinions thereupon. 

Lord Findlater made a search for persons attainted or excepted out 
of the Indemnity. I send your Grace a Copy of his LoPs letter to me 
on that subject, and of my answer, to which I beg leave to refer. 

I have enclosed a Copy of some paragraphs in a letter from an 
Itinerant Preacher (on His Majesty's Bounty) in the Isle of Skye, 
dated the 6th of Nov., which contains the accounts they had of Lochiels 
being landed, with the additional circumstance of a 40 Gun ship. The 
author of that letter is very Zealous and Sensible, and from experience 
I have found him a useful correspondent ; but as what he writes now is 
hearsay, and probably the rebound of the story we had formerly, it 
cannot be true ; for by the latest accounts I had from Fort William 
and the neighbourhood I am assured that the report of Lochiels landing 
or being in the West Highlands was altogether without foundation, and 
I am promised early intelligence of any thing of that kind, and from 
that and other parts of the Country I hear that every thing is as quiet 
as it has been for these twelve months past, and if my information be 
right. Doctor Cameron, Lochiels brother, is still abroad. 

I have the honour to be with the greatest respect 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 

The King's Speech ^ is well judged and well worded, and nothing 

\.At the opening of Parlianient on November 10, 



APPENDIX. 475 

can unite us or anoy the Enemy so much as a steady and vigourous 
prosecution of the noble plan laid down in that most gracious speech. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed; — Rd. 27. 

(Enclosure I.) 
Memorial of Captain James St clair. 

The Memorialist was sent to France while very young, and entered 
into the Service of the Army in the year 1726, and by the interest of 
some Relations there obtained an Officers Commission. 

The gth January 1740, he was promoted to the Rank of a Captain 
in Ruth's Regiment, where he continued till the year 1741 ; that upon 
his Father's death he got leave to return to Scotland, to look after a 
small Farm, of which his Father had a Lease still current, and remained 
quietly at home till after the Rebellion broke out in the year 1745, but 
never came to Edinburgh nor had any intercourse with the Rebels, 
until upon their March to England an officer of his own Corps came to 
his house, and carried him along with him to join part of his Regiment, 
which he did at Moffat, and continued along with them until the Battle 
of Cullodden, where he was wounded and taken prisoner, and sent from 
Inverness to London along with the other prisoners, and put in custody 
of Mr Vincent, one of his Majesty's Messengers, in S* Margaret's Lane, 
Westminster, and continued in that state until a general Exchange of 
prisoners was made, upon which he was sent to Calais with others in 
the like circumstances. 

That being much broke in his health, he took the resolution of 
giving up his commission, which he did with a view of retiring to his 
, own country to spend the remainder of his days quietly at home, and 
believed himself safe so to do as he was never under any trial, was at 
London under confinement when His Majesty's Most Gracious Act of 
Indemnity passed, and for a considerable time thereafter, and was dis- 
missed from thence upon the Exchange of prisoners before mentioned. 

Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's 
of Nov. 21, 1747. 



4/6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 



(Enclosure II.) 

The Earl of Findlater & Seafield to the Lord Justice-Clerk. 

Copy. 

My Lord, 

Very early on Sunday last in the morning there was a search 
made in this Country for persons attainted and excepted from the 
Indemnity. Two Captains and two other officers went from Cullen and 
Bamff about two o'clock in the morning with sufficient partys of Soldiers, 
and divided themselves so as to search nine different places with the 
small houses round them. The places searched were partly the houses 
of the Gentlemen searched for and some others, where by universal report 
as well as from particular enquiry these people were believed to frequent. 
But there was no success, which might be probably owing to the 
Jacobites having got intelligence from Edinburgh that such orders were 
to come, either by that very post that brought them or by the post 
before. They could in all probability have no notion of the time and 
manner of the search, seeing no body knew of it save the two Captains 
and one other person whose assistance was necessary. Captain Gordon 
of General Blakney's Regiment, who commands in Bamff, writes me 
that ofi their road a well-dressed man crossed their front at a quarter of 
a mile's distance in a hand gallop. Upon which the Captain thought 
it necessary to send an officer to Examine him, which when he perceived, 
he set spurs to his horse, and then both the Captain and the officer 
pursued him, on which he drove through the boggs up a hill as fast as 
he could, but the officers in pursuing got their horses bogg'd and found 
themselves invironed with dykes and boggs, so that he fairly made his 
escape through his better knowledge of the country, and that upon their 
examining the country people who saw him, they said it was Sir 
William Gordon of Park. Captain Gordon further adds that by the 
way he came it was imagined he had been drove from one of the houses 
searched by Captain Wheelock, the commanding officer at Cullen. I 



APPENDIX. 477 

also hear that young Ranas escaped very narrowly from one of the 
houses that were searched. 

I have the honour to be with the greatest respect, 

My Lord, 
Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant 

(Signed) FINDLATER & SEAFIELD. 
Cullen House 

4th Novemr 1747. 

Copy of Lord Justice Clerk's Answer. 

I have the honour of your Lordships letter of the 4^^ giving an 
account of your Lordships prudent and zealous directions for making a 
search in your County for seizing persons attainted and excepted from 
the indemnity, and am sorry they were not attended with that success 
that might have been expected from so good a plan, but I can't think 
that the disappointment was owing to any Intelligence the Jacobites 
got from Edinburgh, because care was taken that it should not be 
known there, and upon enquiry I found that in this particular the 
Edinburgh Jacobites had their Intelligence from the North. These 
orders that were sent to so many different persons and places could not 
long remain a secret. But his Majesty will expect that the Sheriffs will 
not make one search serve, but since they know these people are in the 
country and that they will probably be lurking in or about their own or 
their friends houses, that therefore the Sheriffs will from time to time 
renew their searches when least expected, till they either seize them or 
make their country too hot for them, and for this purpose, General 
Bland has given orders to the Commanding Officers of the Troops to 
give assistance as often as is called for. 

I have the honour to be 

My Lord, 

Your Lordship's most obedient and most humble Servant 

(Signed) ANDR FLETCHER. 

Endorsed : — In the Lord Justice Clerk's 
of Nov. 21, 1747. 



478 THE ALBEMARLE PAPEkS. 

(Enclosure III.) 
Intelligence. 

Copy of some paragraphs in a Letter from an Itinerant Preacher in the 
Isle of Sky, dated 6 NoV^. 

I was lately told for certain that Doctor Cameron, Lochiel's 
brother, landed upwards of a month ago at Lochnanuach in Arisaig, 
the very place where the Pretender's son landed two years ago. The 
design of his coming is said to be to prepare the Highlanders for a 
second Insurrection, to which we hear many are inclined if they saw 
encouragement, and we are told here that both nations are ripe for it, 
which God forbid. While I am writing, I'm told that not only 
Doctor Cameron is come, but that likewise Lochiel, and Barrisdale and 
his son, and another whose name the person did not remember, have 
lately arrived at Lochnanuach in Arisaig with a 40 Gun Ship, which 
still remains there. 'Tis odd that the Western Coast is not better 
guarded ; the design of these persons coming is said to be that they may 
raise what men they can in Scotland for the Pretender's Service, to 
make a diversion here in Scotland while the Pretender's son is to invade 
England. 

Endorsed : — In the L<1 Justice Clerk's 
of Nov. 21, 1747. 

{Enclosure IV.) 

The Duke of Cumberland to the Duke of Newcastle. 

My Lord Duke of Newcastle — I should hope the King would not 
permit Cap^^ James Sinclair to remain in Scotland ; for tho' he escaped 
by pretending to be a French Officer, yet he has quite quited this ser- 
vice before and only claim'd it to save his life. 




Endorsed : — In the Lord Justice Clerk's Letter 
of No. 21, 1747. 



APPENt)IX. 479 

XXXIX. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edenburgh, Dec' 4th 1747. 
My Lord Duke, 

In obedience to the Commands I had the Honour to receive 
from your Grace, I give all the assistance in my Power to General 
Bland in the Execution of his Majestys orders, and we have frequently 
had under our Consideration what parts of the Countrey do most require 
the Generalls care and attention, and in what manner the Laws (lately 
made for the Security of his Majestys Government, and the preserva- 
tion of the Peace and tranquillity of the several parts of Scotland), 
particularly the Act for disarming the Highlands, can be most effectually 
put in execution. So as we may in the best and speedyest manner get 
out of the Dangerous and Disagreeable Situation in which his Majestys 
affairs in this Countrey are in at Present. 

And I have now the Honour herewith to transmit to your Grace 
our Humble and Joint opinion in what manner the Peace of this 
Countrey may be secured and his Majesties Government established 
upon the most solid and lasting foundation. 

Your Grace will please pardon the Length of the inclosed paper, 
as it became necessary particularly to explain the Disease in order to 
show the necessity of the several ingredients in the Cure. 

The Foundation upon which the success of our Scheme depends is, 
the great Power that naturally and necessarily attends Property; we 
are so much convinced of the Truth of this Maxim, as to believe it a 
very difficult matter to think of any effectual Regulations for such Clans 
as shall continue to live under their Cheif, and perhaps at present it 
may not be necessary to make many for them, most of them being well 
affected to his Majestys person and Government ; and if any of them 
are disaffected, yet when his Majesty shall become Proprietor of so large 
a Tract of Lands possessed by Loyall subjects, there can be little Danger 
that the others can ever give any Disturbance to the Government ; 
besides when the Lands of his Majestys Property shall be duely culti- 
vated and improved, and the Inhabitants come to feel the sweets of 

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48o THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Liberty and affluence, the same spirit will naturally diffuse itself among 
the other Clans, and the Cheifs must either follow the good example set 
to them or have their Lands left waste. 

As there maj' be some things in the inclosed Paper not sufficiently 
explained, we beg leave to have an opportunity of explaining them, and 
if anything further occurs to us for his Majestys Service, we will take 
the Liberty to lay it before your Grace. 

I have the Honour to be with the Utmost Respect, 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 8. 

4th Deer 1747. 

P.S. — Generall Bland sends a Duplicate of the inclosed paper to 
M"" Pelham. The President of the Session is so very ill and grown so 
very weak that there is little or no hopes of his Recovery. 

(Enclosure.) 

Proposals for Civilizing the Highlands. 

Proposals for Civilizing the Barbarous and Rebellious parts of the 
Highlands of Scotland, and Bringing them into obedience to 
His Majestys Laws and Government, By vesting as much of 
the property of that part of the Country as can be got either 
by Forfeiture or Purchase (unalienable in the Crown), and 
Leasing it out in small Tenements, under certain terms and 
Conditions, Thereby to create an immediate Dependance of 
the Common people on the Crown, as the most effectual 
method to Forward the Great ends of Religion and Loyalty. 

The frequent Rebellions which have taken their Rise in the dis- 
affected parts of the Highlands of Scotland have been in a great 
measure owing to the Tyrany and oppression of the Chiefs of Clans 
and their Duniewassels,^ who made the Common people believe that they 

1 See the Appendix, No. i. 



APPENDIX. 481 

were the property of the Chiefs, This arbitrary power the Chiefs have 
maintain'd by keeping the Common people, who are naturally super- 
stitious, in ignorance and poverty, by discouraging all attempts to 
Introduce the Knowledge of the protestant Religion and our happy 
Constitution, and the true notions of Husbandry, Trade and Manufacture. 
These poor unhappy Creatures are the Tools the Chiefs make use 
of to Aggrandize their Highland pride, and to enable them to oppress 
their neighbours. In requital of that Execrable Service, These Chiefs 
Find it necessary for their interest to protect their Clann in Thefts, 
Rapines and all other Villainies they can committ. And this is all the 
Liberty of which these poor unhappy Creatures can boast. 

The more effectually to preserve the Chief power over the Clans, 
Few or no written Leases are given, and in most places not so much as 
written Receipts or Acquittances for the Rents when paid, and by that 
means nothing that a Tennent is possest of can be called his own. 
But all at the Masters Disposal. And so little force has the Law 
hitherto obtained in these places, That even were there Written Leases 
granted, The Tennents durst not Refuse to surrender them, without 
running the hazard of being murdered in twenty four hours. This 
being the Case, we have but too great reason to fear, That the Relief 
intended. to the poor Tennents by the late Act of Parliament, Whereby 
Tacksmen are Discharged from all services not expressly mentioned in 
their Lease, cannot well take place, till the Country be fully subjected 
to His Majestys Laws and Government. 

And so deeply is the Dependance of the Clan on their Chief rooted 
in the very blood of these Savage Highlanders, That even such of them 
as live under other Highland Landlords, will (notwithstanding their 
Dependance on their own Landlords) be ready to assist and support 
their Chief in any Villainy or mischief he pleases to undertake, in the 
firm expectation of being again supported by him as often as they stand 
in need of it. 

The Chiefs, to keep the Common people in ignorance, which they 
Find so much to their own advantage. Endeavour to preserve their 
Barbarous Language, and prevent, as much as in them lyes, the spread- 
ing of the English Language or any Intercourse with the Low Country. 
The best Cures heretofore devised for Remedying these great Evils 
were, His Majestys Royall Bounty, which has been hitherto applyed in 

PPP 



482 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Supporting a number of Itinerant Preachers, and the Society Erected 
for propagating Christian knowledge in the Highlands by appointing 
Charity Schools in proper places, But the Chiefs who were aware of the 
Consequences of introduceing knowledge among the Common people, 
as it might at last weaken, if not Destroy their dependance on them, 
used all the means in their power to Disappoint the Success of both 
these Undertakings, and in place thereof encouraged none but Popish 
Bishops and Priests who are supported with Sallarys from Rome, and 
Nonjuring Episcopal Ministers, who maintain many Popish Principles, 
and who have all been diligent beyond expression to mislead the People, 
By Inculcating the Doctrines of Hereditary Indefeasible Right, and 
that nothing would be more monstrous or unnatural than to Dispute 
the Will of the Chief. 

The methods taken since the happy Revolution to keep the High- 
lands in peace and quiet have chiefly been these ; 

First to give the Chiefs money. 

And Secondly, The Acts for Disarming the Highlands. 

The first was but a temporary Remedy, skinning over the Wound 
without Curing, and Enabling them as soon as they found an opportunity 
to break out again with more violence than ever, And in the meantime 
subjecting the Crown to the payment of a sort of Blackmail^ Subsidys 
to the worst of subjects. 

The Second again had a quite contrary effect from what was hop'd 
for. Such parts of the Highlands as were dutifull to His Majesty and 
obedient to the Laws, surrendered their arms and were defenceless. 
Whereas the Lawless, Barbarous and disaffected Highlanders Retained 
and Concealed their arms, But had them always ready to use them 
when they had occasion, either in Robbing their neighbours, or Rebel- 
ling against the State; and even had their Arms been taken from them, 
They knew how to be quickly supplyed from abroad. 

The more antient Laws which made the Chiefs answerable for the 
Crimes of their Clans, in case they did not present them to Justice 
when called for, only helped to Fix the Slavery more effectually about 
the necks of these miserable people. 

'Tis true that Cromwell Reduced the Highlands by the force of an 

] See the Appendix, No. 2, 



APPENDIX. 483 

Army^ But as soon as the Army was Removed, They Returned to their 
natural Barbarity. 

One who is a Stranger to the Highlands of Scotland may naturally 
suppose That it might be in the power of the Civil Magistrates, Sherriffs 
and Justices of Peace, to prevent the Highlanders from Getting or 
Keeping of Arms. But whoever is acquainted with their Country, or 
even duly attends to the Situation of it in the Maps, must soon perceive 
That (till that wild Country be Civilized by having Troops constantly 
stationed amongst them) The Civil Magistrates are and always must be 
at so great a distance from those Barbarous, almost inaccessible, parts 
of the Highlands, That it is impossible for them to do any thing effec- 
tual in that matter, And that the Disarming Act can only with effect be 
Executed by the Regular Troops ; and yet so few stations are there 
where the Regular Troops can possibly be quartered in the Winter time, 
That in the whole Country of Lochaber,^ that Source and Nursery of 
the Rebellion, there is only one single Station for Regular Troops, To 
witt Fort William (unless Fort Augustus and Bernera should also be 
counted, Tho' they are at too great a distance from the worst part of the 
Highlands to do any effectual Service in that matter :) So that during 
every Winter the old Rebellious Inhabitants in Lochaber are to this 
day as much Masters of that Country as they were in the height of the 
Rebellion, and as much at liberty to Plunder their Neighbours, and even 
Insult the Government. 

Most of the Schemes which have hitherto been talk'd of for Civiliz- 
ing the Highlands Suppose the Continuance of the Chiefs living among 
the Clan, arid at the same time attempt only at methods to Draw away 
the Dependance on them, a very difficult Task, a work of Time, if at all 
practicable to such a Degree as to produce the desired effect. It must 
be admitted, That some things of their own nature Require a track of 
time. Such as getting ridd of the Barbarous Language, But what can 
.be done immediately ought not to be delayed, and the others as soon as 
possible. Could we but at once gett ridd of all Chiefs of Clans in these 
barbarous and disloyal parts of the Highlands, it would facilitate all 
other operations both in point of difficulty and time ; And therefore, so 
far as we can get ridd of them, we ought, and where we cannot get ridd 

1 See the Appendix, No. 4. 



484 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

of them, That such Regulations be made and carried into Execution as 
to make the Common people as free and independent of their Chiefs as 
the nature of their Case can admitt. 

We can free the Common people of their Chiefs, where the Chiefs 
have Forfeited their Estates, or are willing to sell their Estates, or Such 
parts of them as are situate in that Barbarous and disaffected part of 
the Highlands, Particularly the Lands possest by the McLeans, the 
Steuarts, The McDonalds of Glengerry, The Grants of Urquhart and 
Glenmorison, and the Camerons, all lying in Lochaber, or contiguous to 
it ; which should be purchast at the publick expence, so far as they are 
not already Forfeited, and vested in the Crown, and to be for ever 
unalienable. The Rent of these Lands may be two or Three thousand 
pounds per annum, or thereabouts, and it's believ'd that most of the 
Proprietors would not be unwilling to sell them at a reasonable price, 
and the Purchase money of these Lands would be but a Triffle in com- 
parison of the Sums that have, and probably must still be laid out to 
keep these parts of the Highlands in Subjection. And this purchase, 
join'd to the Lovat Estate, and the other Forfeited Estates, will give 
the King the property of a Tract of Lands from the west to the East 
sea. 

When the King is thus once Master of the property, Then His 
Majesty will of course have the choice who shall be the possessors or 
Inhabitants of the Lands, And it would be of great importance both for 
the Improvement of the Country, and Encouraging Industry and Manu- 
factures of all kinds, and above all for Infusing a Spirit of Loyalty 
instead of disaffection, not only to Clear the Country of Thieves and idle 
persons, by putting the Laws in full Execution against them, But also 
to Introduce into that Country as many Inhabitants as possible from 
England or from the Low and well affected Country of Scotland, which 
might be done by giving proper Encouragement. 

One method is pretty obvious. The outpensioners of Chelsea 
Hospital might all of them be brought to that Country, and besides 
Continuing to them their present annual pension, might have Leases 
given them at an easie rate, Suppose a third under the present Rent, of 
as much Ground as they would be able to Stock with Cattle and Culti- 
vate. And over these Chelsea Pensioners might be placed proper 
officers, and they stationed in some of the most fertile Glens or little 



Appendix. 485 

valleys in the Highlands, which are now the Rendezvouz of thieves and 
Traitors. 

The same Encouragement of ana Abatement of a third part of the 
present Rate, with proper Security for the protection of their persons 
and effects, would probably Induce Some of the Loyal and Industrious 
Inhabitants of the Low Countrys to become Tennents in the Highlands, 
and Such of the Soldiers of any of the Regiments quartered in that 
neighbourhood (and who are not themselves of that Country) as shall 
be willing to take any of these Leases and are proper for it, and grown 
a little too old for Continuing in the Service, might have Some of those 
Leases granted them, upon their being discharged. 

Some of the Conditions on which the Leases should be granted 
may be these following. 

1. That all the Leasees be Protestants, and that they suffer no Mass 
or Nonjuring Meetings within their bounds, And that they and their 
Familys, and all the Inhabitants within their bounds, Regularly attend 
Divine worship in the Parish Church Established by Law, and that 
they be obliged to Return yearly Certificates thereof from their 
Ministers. 

2. That all the Leasees be qualified by taking the oaths to the 
Government. 

3. That all the Leasees speak the English Language, and that 
after ^ years they shall not permitt any Person to Reside within their 
bounds who does not speak English, And also they shall be bound that 
all their own Children, and those Living within their bounds, attend the 
English school till they obtain a Certificate from the Minister of the 
parish That they can speak and Read English. 

4. The Leasees are to be bound that neither they, nor any of their 
Family, nor any person living upon their Farm, or employed by them, 
shall wear the Highland Garb, nor shall they Hunt, or use any Diver- 
sion of that kind, with Guns, Dogs, netts, or other Engines or Devices 
whatsoever, or Suffer any person to Inhabite within their Bounds who 
has not a visible way of Living by Trade or Manufacture, unless they 
be so old and infirm as to be incapable to work for their Bread. 

5. That the Continuance of the Lease shall not exceed nineteen 
years, or the Tennents Life ; which of them the Tennent shall chuse, 

1 Blank in the MS. 



486 tkE ALBEMARLE PAPfeRS. 

6. That no Tennent have more Land than what he can cultivate 
himself. And that he be expressly debarred from assigning his Lease or 
any part of it, or having any subtennents, And if he cannot manage all 
the Lands sett to him, he may Resign the same, or any part of it, to the 
Crown, in order that a new Lease maybe granted by the Crown to some 
proper person. 

7. That all Leasees should observe what Rules and Directions may 
be given them (according to the nature and Situation of their Farms) 
for the improvement of the Ground, and the Encouragement of Fisheries 
and all sort of manufactures, which shall be exprest in their Leases. 

8. That they should not knowingly Harbour any persons that are 
outlawed or Excepted from the late Act of Indemnity, And if any such 
person, or any person to them unknown, should come into their Bounds, 
They should give immediate notice of it to the Commanding officer of 
the party next to them, and to his Majestys Deputy Sherriff. And that 
they should give the same Intimation, in case they hear or come to the 
knowledge of any Designs or Attempts to Disturb the peace and Tran- 
quillity of his Majestys Government ; And in general That they should 
observe all the Laws made or to be made for the peace and quiet of the 
Country. 

g. That the non observance of any of the Conditions of the Lease 
should be a Forfeiture, at the suit of such person or persons as shall be 
appointed by his Majesty, and be tried summarly either before the 
Sherriff of the County or Court of Session. 

10. That the Woods and Salmond Fisheries be Excepted from the 
Leases, and the Leasees bound to take proper care of the Woods, and 
observe the Laws for preserving the Salmond Fishing. 

11. That all Mines and Minerals of Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, 
Iron, Tin, Coals and Slate, be Reserved in the Lease to his Majesty, or 
such person or persons to whom he shall please to grant the same. 
They always paying for what Damage is done by working the said Mines 
to the person possest of the Lease of the Ground. 

12. That Lyme, Marie, and other materials for Improveing the 
Ground, be common to all the Leasees, They paying to the Leasee, in 
whose ground they are dugg, Dammages occasioned by Working and 
Carrying them off. 

X3. That these Leasees, at getting of their Leases, may be obliged 



APPENDIX. 487 

to make oath that they have hot paid^ nor have not promised or Engaged 
to pay, any sums of money or other valuable Consideration whatsoever 
to any person for or upon account of the said Lease or possession, other 
than the Duties therein specified. And if it shall be afterwards proved 
That they have, before granting the said Lease, or during the Currency 
thereof, paid any sums of money or other valuable consideration, either 
to the former proprietor of the said Lands, or any of his Family or 
Clan, or to any other person for his or their behoof, or to any person 
on any account whatever for or in consideration of the said Lease or 
possession. That the Lease should from thenceforth become void and 
null, and they Forfeit Triple of the sum paid, The said payment or 
Gratuity to be proved either by lawfull witnesses, or by write or oath of 
partie. 

And for preventing the Chiefs, or any in Trust for them, their ever 
acquiring any Interest in or power over these Lands, or the inhabitants 
thereof. It is further proposed. That the Rents be payable either to the 
Collectors of Customs or Excise as his Majesty shall appoint, To be paid 
over by them to his Majestys Receipt of Exchequer, The said Rents to 
be Recoverable by such process and Diligence as is used or competent 
by the Law of Scotland for the Recovery of Tennents Rents at the suit 
of persons to be appointed for that effect in the manner after men- 
tiqned, 

At present the Parishes are of so prodigious an extent. That in 
some of them there are no less than three or four different places of 
worship, and yet many of the Inhabitants very seldom haye any oppor- 
tunity of attending the worship at either of those places, which could 
not have been hitherto Remedied, Because the Tythes could not afford 
sufficient Funds for provisions to Ministers at each of those Churches : 
Therefore it is proposed, That where Parishes are of too great an Extent 
for the whole Inhabitants to attend divine Worship at one place, That 
they be divided into two, three or more parishes, according to the 
Extent, and Sufficient provisions allotted to each Minister to be paid 
to them by the Collector ; And that a publick School be Erected wherever 
there is a Church in each of the said disjoined Parishes. 

And for Introducing Manufactures, particularly the Linnen Manu- 
facture, It will at first be necessary to give some Encouragement to 
persons capable to Instruct the Common people and Children in the 



488 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

several Branches of that Manufacture, and to furnish them with Flax 
and other materials necessary for Carrying on these Manufactures, and 
to pay them ready money for their work. All which at the beginning mus 
be attended with some expence and trouble. Considering the ignorance 
of the people, the distance and difficult access of that Country. 

Makeing the best Laws and Regulations will Signify nothing unless 
they be Executed faithfully, with Judgement, Spirit and Diligence ; And 
therefore the whole Depends upon Finding proper persons to Execute 
this Great work ; Persons who have no Connections with that Barbarous 
Country, or the Chiefs and Inhabitants thereof, Persons zealous for his 
Majestys Service, animated with a sense of the usefulness and necessity 
of Civilizing and Cultivating the Highlands, and who will make the 
Success of it a point of Honour. 

Therefore it seems necessary that a Commission be granted by the 
King from time to time to such persons as his Majesty shall think fitt 
for Giving those Leases, and with power to them by themselves, or by 
any person or persons to be appointed by them for that effect, to survey 
the Grounds, and to describe the same, with the extent and different 
Qualitys thereof, and any advantages or disadvantages attending the 
same, and what Improvements may be made thereon, and to enter the 
same in a Register to be kept for that effect, and to keep a Record of all 
their proceedings, to be reported to his Majesty as often as shall be re- 
quired. And for that end, to appoint Clerks and other necessary officers 
with proper Sallarys, 

Perhaps it would also be proper that these Commissioners, or such 
persons as shall by them be appointed for that effect, should be enabled 
to sue the Tennents in case of nonperformance of any of the Conditions 
of Lease, and Diligence might issue at their instance for payment of the 
Rents to the Collectors above mentioned, and for the Leasees Reporting 
their Discharges to the said Commissioners. 

If this Plan or any other of the like nature be thought Reasonable 
and agreed to, it is obvious That the Leasees should be protected in the 
peaceable possession of their Farms &c ; which cannot be accomplished 
(according to the present Situation of that Barbarous Country) without 
a military Force continued for some years, which at the same time is 
absolutely necessary for Executing the Disarming Act, and effectually 
preventing the use of arms among the Rebellious Highlanders. 



APPENDIX. 489 

The Chief Country of the Rebellious Highlanders, and which lyes 
to the west and north of the Chain made by the Forts, Fort George, 
Fort Augustus and Fort William, is so wild, mountainous and in- 
accessible, so destitute of accommodation and the necessarys of Life with 
which his Majestys other Subjects are accustomed, That none of his 
Majestys Troops have Quartered there, nor ever marched into it, except 
some Partys for a few days in the middle of Summer, and is now in the 
winter season in the full possession of these Rebellious Highlanders, 
who may be Committing all Sorts of Crimes, and Harbouring the 
Enemies of the Government, without any fear of being discovered or 
seized either by the Army or the Civil Magistrate. 

To Subject this Lawless Country to his Majestys Government and 
put the Laws in Execution, it seems absolutely necessary That some 
Military Force more or less be placed in the several Straths,^ Glens or 
Districts of that Country, to keep a Constant Communication with each 
other, to observe what passes, and give notice to the next Commanding 
officer, and to Execute such orders as they shall Receive. 

To effectuate this it's proposed that Four or five stations in the 
Body of this part of the Highlands be chosen, in each of which From 
five to ten Companys may be conveniently quartered, From which small 
partys may be detached to the several Straths or Glens in the neighbour- 
hood of such stations by way of Patrole, to prevent the wearing of arms, 
and for protecting his Majestys Leasees, and Stopping all Intercourse 
between the Inhabitants and persons attainted or excepted out of the Act 
of Indemnity, and to assist the Civil officer in the Execution of the Law. 

That one of these Stations be fixed at the place where the Pre- 
tenders Son Landed, where there is a fine Harbour, That each Station 
be Secured by some slight Fortification, which may be done by all the 
Soldiers with very small Expence, and the Soldiers may also next 
summer build Houses sufficient to Quarter in for several years, as that 
Country affords plenty of Stones, timber and materials for Thatching. 
Foot Roads may also this Summer be made from station to station, 
which may serve till Roads for Horses and Carriages be afterwards 
made, whereby they may immediately with very little charge take and 
mantain the possession of that barbarous Country. 

That at every such station. Ground may be sett apart for Sutlars, 

^ See the Appendix, No. 3. 

QQQ 



490 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Bakers, Butchers, Tradesmen and other Deallers, and that Encourage- 
ment be given to those who will build. By giving them the property of 
the Ground for a House and Gairden &c.. And that at each of these 
Stations there be a School for Teaching to Read and write English, and 
also to raise and Dress Flax, to Spin, and other branches of manu- 
facture, or Fishery (where the Stations are upon the Sea Coast), And 
that so soon as a number of Industrious people are brought together, His 
Majesty may erect the Village into a Burgh to be held immediately of 
the Crown, with the usual privileges. 

It would be improper to Conclude without observing, that the 
Common Highlanders are a sagacious Cunning people, are frugal and 
Love money, Do not want natural courage. It is their poverty and 
Slavery that engages them in thefts, and their chief motive to Rebell is 
the hopes of Plunder. For we see that as soon as they are freed from 
poverty, and that Slavish Dependance on their Chiefs, by being Inlisted 
in his Majestys Service in the Highland Regiments, no private men in 
the Army are more Sober and regular in their Quarters, more obedient 
to their officers, and observant of orders, or more faithful when employed 
as safeguards, or behave better in the day of action than they do ; and 
where any of them Reside or are employed in other places of Brittain, 
remote from their Barbarous Highlands, or in any of the Plantations, 
none succeed better or meet with more Encouragement ; So that it is a 
great pity that this natural Genius of theirs, that might by proper care 
be improved to the advantage of Brittain, should by the misfortune of 
their unhappy Situation and miserable Education be perverted to the 
destruction of themselves and their Country. 

If proper measures shall be taken for improving the means, which 
Providence seems at this time to put into the hands of the Government, 
For Turning the worst of Rebels into Loyal Subjects, That very 
Rebellion (if we may use his Majestys own words to his Parliament in 
the height of the Rebellion), That very Rebellion that was intended to 
overturn the present happy Establishment will by its consequences 
procure great Strength to that excellent Constitution it was designed to 
subvert : And it looks as if Providence had designedly Reserved the 
accomplishing of this great work to the King, to be one of the lasting 
Glorys of his Majestys Reign. 

Edenburgh, December the 4*^ 1747. 



APPENDIX. 49I 

This scheme is most Humbly offered to the Consideration of His 

Grace the Duke of Newcastle, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of 

State, by 

AND. FLETCHER. 

HUM. BLAND. 

{Appendix.) 

1. Duniewassells, In a large sense comprehends all the Branches 
which have grown from the Chiefs, and who to ingratiate themselves 
with their Chiefs, and to enjoy a Larger share of their Tyranical power, 
have been successful Instruments to keep the Common people in Slavery. 
They think themselves of too high blood to stoop to Trade or Manu- 
facture, And therefore such of them as do not chuse a military Life, do 
either obtain from their Chief the Government of some Glen or District 
of Land, for which they pay a certain sum to their Chief, and they 
become still more oppressive than the Chief. The best of the Ground 
they keep to themselves, and oblige the Common people to pay dear for 
the worst, and generally Exact more from them than they pay for the 
whole to their Chief. These Dunie wassells in process of time, when 
they get some property and kindred of their own, take the name of 
Chieftains or little Chiefs, who Lead and Command a Tribe under the 
Chief. 

As the Chief cannot provide all his poor Relations with Govern- 
ments, Those who are unprovided hang about the Chiefs House, ready to 
attend him wherever he goes, and are the Executioners of his Will and 
pleasure. They have a certain portion of all stollen Cattle, and indeed, 
for the most part, are the Contrivers as well as the Leaders of the 
Partys who Committ the Robberys and Thefts, And they are in the most 
proper sense called Duniewassels, which in their Language signifys 
Highmen or Gentlemen. 

And all these Branches of the Chief have a certain Rank In the 
Command of the Clan when it takes the Field. 

In some places of Lochaber and Rannoch They improved so far in 
theft, That they have methodized it into a Regular Trade, and they 
kept a number of desperate Ruffains and idle vagabonds to bring in 
Cattle as directed, and then Divided them by certain proportions. 

2. Blackmaill, is a duty paid to some powerful Chief or Chieftain 



492 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

by the Low Country, for protecting them from theft and Depradation, 
and this Tax is laid on as equally as the Land Tax, and tho' it may 
have the appearance of a free voluntary bargain, yet really the Low 
Country people were forced into it, Because if they did not submitt to 
it, they were sure to have their Cattle stollen and carried off. The last 
who practised this was Clunie M^Pherson and McDonald of Barrisdale, 
in the year immediately preceeding the Rebellion. Before that time 
the Independent Highland Companys who were in use to protect the 
Low Country from Depredations was Regimented and Sent abroad. 

3. Glen, Signifys a Little valley between two Hills or Mountains, 
through which there generally runs a River or Rivulet, and the sides of 
the Hills generally covered with wood. Strath, Is a large Glen. 

4. Lochaber, in a strict sense Comprehends only the Lands on 
both sides of the River Lochie near to Fort William ; But in a large 
sense, in which it is here taken, it comprehends all the Country on the 
Main Land to the west and north of Fort Augustus and Fort William, 
and the Country of the Rebels thereabouts, And so Comprehends not 
only Lochaber in a proper sense, But also Glengerry, Glenmorison, 
Knoidart, Moidart, Arisaig, Morer, Sunart, Ardnamurchan, Clanronald, 
Keppoch, and the Country of the Steuarts, Camerons and McLeans. 

Endorsed : — In h^ Justice Clerk's Letter 
of Dec' 4th 1747. 



XL. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh the 15*^ December 1747. 
My Lord Duke, 

I had the Honour to write to your Grace the 4* and also 
the ID*. I send enclosed a copy of Intelligence I received yesterday, 
dated at Dunkell the 9*, which I immediately communicated to General 
Bland, and I have desired the person who sent it to me to get what 
further intelligence he can. I also send enclosed a copy of the Precog- 

1 S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 38. No. 47. 



APPENDIX, 493 

nition taken against John Murray in Perth, with the Lord Advocates 
opinion thereon, and a copy of my letter to M^ George Miller, Sheriff 
Deputy of Perth, who (when he sent me the information against this 
John Murray) represented him as drunk when he uttered the words 
mentioned in the Precognition, and that when sober he was a sort of 
Fool. 

I have also sent your Grace copys of some Letters, Informations 
and other papers concerning James Davidson, a deserter and a rebel, 
who broke prison at Perth, and tho' pardoned by the late act of indem- 
nity, has been since that time guilty of robbing houses, particularly the 
house of Mr William Brown, Minister of Cortochie, whose zeal for the 
service of the Government probably brought on the resentment of this 
rebel, who being laid hold of and again imprisoned at Perth, I have in 
concert with the Lord Advocate Granted warrant for transporting him 
hither, where he is to be tried. 

I also send your Grace inclosed a List of persons proposed to be 
assisting to Lieutenant General Bland in the execution of the disarming 
Act, and a List of Officers of the Army proposed to be added to the 
ordinary Lists of the Justices of Peace in all the Countys where the 
disarming Act takes place, both which Lists were made up, according to 
your Grace's directions, in concert with General Bland. 

I find it a very difficult matter to make the proper observations 
upon the Lists of the Justices of Peace. However, I shall do it accord- 
ing to the best information I can get, and shall endeavour to make as 
few mistakes as possible. I have begun with these Countys where the 
disarming Act takes place, and have enclosed the lists of the Justices of 
Peace for the Countys of Inverness and Aberdeen with observations ; 
those marked S are reputed to be Jacobites though they take the Oaths, 
and those marked E are too low and mean for the office of a Justice of 
Peace ; the other observations are set down at full length ; those pro- 
posed to be added are reputed well affected to his Majesty's person and 
Government and fit for the office. I hope to be able to continue send- 
ing some of these Lists every post till I get this laborious work finished 
and I shall be very glad if the method I have taken meets with your 
Grace's approbation. 

I have also the honour to send your Grace a copy of M^ Garden of 
Troups letter to me in relation to John Gordon of Avochie's being em- 



494 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

ployed to recover his papers/ by which it appears that this Gordon of 
Avochie had a protection for two months from my Lord Albemarle, 
upon the expiring whereof and after Lord Albemarle had left this 
country, Mr Garden's friends (as he tells me) the Earls of Rothes and 
Findlater applied to your Grace for a new protection to Avochie, and 
which Mr Garden says he had reason to believe would have been 
granted, had it not been for M' Stone's indisposition. M^ Gardens 
friends not having moved in it after that time, He tells me he has again 
wrote to the Earl of Rothes to apply to your Grace, and I promised to 
transmit to your Grace a Copy of his letter to me, but as I had no 
concern in this affair from the beginning, I take no part in it now. And 
my chief reason for giving your Grace this trouble is only to show how 
false as well as malicious the story is, which was handed about at 
London, That a notorious rebel Gordon of Avochie was going about 
publickly with a Protection from me. I do assure your Grace, I never 
gave a protection to any rebel, nor did I think I had power to protect 
any man whom the Law did not protect ; But this is not the first time 
that my constant services to the Government has brought upon me the 
displeasure of some designing persons (that I need not name) who take 
pleasure in raising and propagating whatever they imagine can throw 
dirt upon me. It is some comfort to me, that hitherto their aspersions, 
as they had no foundation in truth, so I have reason to hope they 
gained very little credit with his Majesty's servants, and I flatter myself 
that I have some title to be under your Grace's Protection, which en- 
courages me to dispise such impotent malice. And I must humbly beg, 
as the greatest favour, that your Grace would be pleased to represent 
the case as it truly is to his Majesty. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 
My Lord Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 21. 

^ Cf. supra, No. CLIX. (Enclosure ii.). 



APPENDIX. 495 

{Enclosure I.) 

Intelligence. 

Dunkeld, Decemr g, 1747. 

Report by G. M. 

That about three weeks ago he heard that John Roy Stewart was 
in Ranoch ; that he G. M. went to that Country to pick up what infor- 
mation he could as he was acquainted with Roy Stewart. But upon 
M's coming there Roy Stewart was gone towards Stirling. M. thinking 
to meet with him about Drummond Castle went that way and met him 
upon the road by Crieff. After some conversation passing Stewart told 
him that he came from France in August last in company with some 
Gentlemen, but named none of them except Hunter of Burnside ; he 
said that the most of them was returned, and that he was going to the 
North to take shipping for France, and expected to embark somewhere 
about the Long Island. He assured M. that in the Spring there would 
be an Invasion upon England and Scotland at the same time. To con- 
firm this M. says that he saw one Robertson who lives at Inveroack, 
whose son takes upon him the Title of Woodsheal, who was in the 
Rebellion and is now in France. He wrote lately to his father much in 
the same manner as Roy Stewart relates. 

Endorsed : — No. i. in L<J Justice Clerk's 
of Dec. 15, 1747. 

(Enclosure II.) 
Examination of John Murray. 

Perth, 2^ December 1747. In pursuance of John Robertson of 
Tullibelton Esq"", present Provost and Sheriif of Perth. 

John Murray, Slaitor in Dunning in Perthshire, being brought 
before the Provost and accused of having been guilty of uttering seditious 
and treasonable words against Our Sovereign Lord the King and the 
Government this afternoon in the house of William Bryce, Vintner in 
the Newraw of Perth, and the said John Murray being Examined, Denys 
that at the time and place aforesaid he did utter any other treasonable 



496 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

words than that he did say to a soldier then in company with him, It 
may be Charlie's men may be yet uppermost, and owns that by that 
name he meant the Pretender's Son, And the said Murray did likeways 
judicially say, Who knows but these men may indeed be yet uppermost. 

(Signed) JOHN MURRAY. JO. ROBERTSON. 

Moses Stevenson, Corporal in Captain William Robertsons Grena- 
dier Company of Lieu*^ Gen^ Henry Skelton's Regiment of foot lying at 
Perth, unmarried, aged Twenty eight years, being examined, Declares 
that he did see the said John Murray in the house of William Brj^-ce, 
and Murray having then in his hand a dish or quaff full of ale, and tho' 
the Declarant and his Company were no way noticeing nor talking to 
the said John Murray, he addressing himself to them said, I will drink 
Prince Charlie's health, and you are all King George's men, but I hope 
he will over come you all yet, upon which the Declarant did with his 
hand throw Murray's quaff and ale in his face, and this he declares to 
be truth, and further Declares that he thinks Murray was then drunk, 
as he seems now to be. 

(Signed) MOSES STEVENSON. JO. ROBERTSONS. 

James Tapperosbone, John Manwood and Thomas Foulks, all 
soldiers in the aforesaid Company and Regiment, being Examined, they 
all declare alike to the said Moses Stevenson and they declare this to 
be the truth. 

(Signed) JAMES TAPPEROSBONE, JOHN MANWOOD, 

THOS. FOULKS, JO. ROBERTSONE. 

Eo. die. 

The Provost having considered this case ordains the said John 
Murray to be committed to and detained prisoner within the Tolbooth 
of Perth till he is liberated by due course of Law. 

(Signed) JO. ROBERTSONE. 

Eo. die. 

There after Thomas Waterson and Walter Taylor, Servants to the 
said William Bryce, being Examined, the said Walter Declares that at 



APPENDIX. 497 

the time mentioned in the above Declarations of the Soldiers, All that 
he the said Walter heard the above John Murray say was this, I wish 
that Charlie's men may not be yet uppermost, And the said Thomas 
Declares that at the same time he heard Murray say to the soldiers, if 
you had been all as true as I, there would not have been so much to do 
now, and the Declarant thinks Murray meant true to the King and 
Government. 

(Signed) THOMAS WATERSTON, WALTER TAYLOR, 
JO. ROBERTSONE. 

Edinburgh 8 December 1747. 

I have this day received and perused the within precognition, and 
am of opinion that the case does not come up to or fall under the Act of 
the 6* of Queen Anne ch. 7, which makes the treasonable words therein 
mentioned to infer the penalty of premunire provided that Information 
of such words be given upon oath to a Justice of peace within three 
days after such words spoken. But I think the words declared by the 
Corporal and the Soldiers are seditious, highly disaffected or treasonable, 
by which I do not mean that they amount to High Treason, but that 
they express the disloyalty of the person who uttered them. And there- 
fore, the uttering of them is an offence which may be tryed or punished 
by the Judges ordinary or Magistrates of the burgh with an arbitrary 
punishment, if upon tryal of the fact by examining the witnesses upon 
oath on a Complaint at the Fiscal's instance it shall appear to be law- 
fully proved. 

(Signed) WILLIAM GRANT. 

Endorsed : — No 2. 

In L^ Justice Clerk's letter 
of Deer 15^ 1747. 

► (Enclosure III.) 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to George Miller. 

Edinburgh, 11 December 1747. 
Sir, 

I return enclosed the Precognition against John Murray 
with The Lord Advocates signed opinion. It will be expected that his 

RRR 



498 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

tryal will be immediately proceeded in, and if found guilty that he be 
exemplarly punished. Folly or Drunkenness is no excuse, the Impud- 
ence and Ingratitude of the Enemys of the Government is so great, that 
it becomes necessary to make Examples of the first that comes in our 
way ; Was Folly and madness admitted for Excuse, I do not know any 
of that Gang could be tryed. 

It is reported at London that there is a Nonjuring Meeting house 
at Perth ^ under your eye, which, even for your sake, I wish may not be 
true. It would require Volumes to state all possible Cases upon the 
Act against Nonjuring Meeting houses. But when you state any case 
that happens and your difficultys thereon, you shall have an immediate 
answer from the Crown's Lawiers ; What charges you are at I shall 
pay, though I am not yet repaid of what you have already had. I long 
much to hear of your having laid hold of such of the rebels as are still 
obnoxious to the Law, and done something in obedience to the orders 
transmitted to the Sheriffs. The Commanding Officer of the Troops has 
orders to assist you ; pray do not make it necessary for the Troops to 
act without the Authority of the Civil Magistrate, for the Governrnent 
must not be insulted. 

Let me hear from you, and give me an opportunity of reminding 
those in power of your services. 

I am, Sir, 

Your most obedient humble Servant 

(Signed) ANDR FLETCHER. 

Endorsed : — No. 3. in L^ Justice Clerk's Letter 
of Dec' 15, 1747. 

{Enclosure IV.) 

Information against James Davidson. , 

Sir, 

The noted fellow Davidson, who made his escape from your 
Prison in Summer last, was apprehended last night within the Juris- 
diction of this Shire, when he and some of his accomplices were robbing 
some peoples houses in a most daring and open way by wounding 

IC/. App. No. XLII., infra. 



APPENDIX. 499 

several, as a more particular information of the facts herewith sent you 
by Mr William Brown, minister at Cortachie, whose house they also 
invaded, will inform. And as he has formerly broken your Prison (when 
as I am informed he was to be carried to Edin"^ in order to be tryed 
there) I thought it necessary to send him to you to be close confined 
till you think proper to send him, for such a notorious common Enemy 
to the whole Country ought to be prosecuted by every officer of the 
Law so far as they can assist each other in bringing to Tryal. 
I am with esteem, 
Sir, 
Your most humble Serv* 
(Signed) GEO. CAMPBELL, Carsgonie. 

22^ Novemr 1747. Directed thus. To George Miller Esq^, Sheriif 
Depute of the County of Perth. 

Cairnmuir Nov. 23^ 1747. 
Dr Sir, 

Enclosed you have ane Information against your old 
acquaintance and prisoner James Davidson who comes to make you a 
second visit. I send you also a letter from our Sheriff and I hope you 
will be at all pains to perform the desire of it. Publick interest and 
safety requires it, and if I have any personal interest to plead with you, 
I must also in mine own behalf and behalf of the very few Whigs that 
live in my neighbourhood beseech you to exert yourself in taking parti- 
cular care of this notable rogue. He was very exact in pitching on 
such houses and families as he knows to be well affected to the present 
establishment, and I find it is a part of his creed that ane attempt upon 
such is no ways sinful, but rather ane Act of Publick. Why ? because 
we are Enemies and Informers. I am convinced he has been put upon 
bj our good neighbours, who as odious as they reckon it to inform to 
Government of any that are Enemies to them, that according to the 
Law they be punished or prosecuted from disturbing the publick peace, 
yet see no harm to inform such a Banditts against honest people they 
think proper to distinguish by ane odious name as proper persons to be 
robbed and murdered at the dead hour of the night without any form of 
Law or any well founded accusation or even probable presumption 



500 The ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

against them. I must again use my interest with you to see this rogue 
looked particularly after. 

If I don't mistake, there was a premium put upon this fellows head 
by your people when he made his escape from your prison. This I beg 
you will bestow upon the honest fellows that apprehended him for their 
encouragement. I do assure you they seized him at a great risk and I 
had a great difficulty to get as many as were sufficient for this purpose 
who were to be trusted. If they are gainers by it they may perhaps be 
more ready to undertake the like afterwards, I can tell you there is no 
security of such in our bounds. This from your most humble serv* 

(Signed) WILL. BROWN. 

Directed thus, to M^ George Miller, Sheriff depute of the county of 
Perth at Perth. 

Information Against James Davidson Prisoner in the Tolbooth of 
Kerriemuir to be carried to the Prison of Perth. 

jmo Upon the 21^* day of November 1747 years. He invaded the 
house of Mr William Brown minister at Cartochie with ane other in 
Company called John Watt with cock'd Pistols in their hands which 
they did present at entering the door about eleven of the clock forenoon. 

2<io About eight of the Clock said day. He with Watt, and ane 
other whose name is not known, went to the house of Robert Patton at 
Bridgend of Cortachie, and after wounding him and servants with a 
sword and swearing them to secrecy, having a cock'd pistol in his hand, 
he plundered what was in his pocket, broke his doors and carried off in 
haste from him in cash upwards of five pounds sterling, besides his Big 
Coat, A Web of Cloath &c. 

3*10 He with the above accomplices went immediately to the 
house of Robert Clark, wright at said Bridgend, where he robbed Robert 
Clark's wife (He being from home) of her money, being about five 
shillings sterling, held a Cock'd pistol to her breast, which her daughter 
Isobell Clark endeavouring to divert from doing harm to her mother, he 
immediately discharged and shot the said Isobell Clark through the 
right arm, all which can be clearly proven by Witness 

(Signed) WILL. BROWN. 
Perth 24 Novemr 1747. 



AppfeNbtx. 501 

The within Information being presented to John Richardson, 
Sheriff substitute of Perthshire and considered by him, He grants 
warrant to commit the person of the within James Davidson to Prison 
within the Tolbooth of Perth, therein to remain until he be Hberated by 
due course of Law, And ordains the Keeper of the Prison to receive his 
person and keep him in safe custody as he will be answerable. 

(Signed) JO. RICHARDSON. 

Perth lo^h June 1747. In presence of George Miller, Sheriff dept of 

Perthshire. 

Adam Wilson Corporal in Cap* Salt's Company of General Skelton's 
Regiment of Foot lying at Dundee, Montrose &c. delivered over to the 
Sheriff the Person of one James Davidson with a missive letter dated 
at Montrose the 8*^ Curr' (Signed) S* John Leader, a Cap' in the said 
Regiment, Addressed To the Officer commanding General Skeltons 
Regiment at Dundee, but that address being scored out, the missive is 
now addressed To Clerk Miller at Perth, and of which missive Letter 
The Tenor follows. 

Montrose 8* June 1747. 
Sir, . 

Pursuant to Lord Albemarle's Orders of 12* Feb^y I have sent 
one James Davidson, a Deserter from the Scots Fuziliers, a noted rebel 
and robber, in order that he may be transmitted to Perth, Pursuant to 
said order. He is the same person who headed a score more rogues, and 
robbed and plundered the Clergy and Country round about this place & 
Brechin, so that the honest people rejoice that he is taken. 
I am, Sir, Your humble Serv* 

(Signed) ST JOHN LEADER. 

P.S. — There will be sufficient evidence against him as to the 
several crimes alleadged against him. 

Addressed thus, To Clerk Miller, at Perth. 

The said James Davidson being examined by the Sheriff, declares 
that he is son to the now deceast John Davidson, Gunsmith in Brechin. 
That he enlisted in the Regiment of Scots Fuziliers in July 1739 and 



502 TliE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

served as soldier in that Regiment till he was taken Prisoner by the 
French at the Battle of Fontenoy in summer 1745, when being carried 
into France, where being harshly used, he was forced to enlist in the 
French Regiment commanded by Lord John Drummond, in which Regi- 
ment he came from France to Scotland in winter 1745, and was with them 
in the Town of Stirling at the time of the Battle of Falkirk in January 
1745/6. That he did march with that Regiment in the rebel army from 
Stirling to the North of Scotland in Feb^'y y' after, and that at the time 
of the Battle of Colloden in April y^ after he the declarant was one of a 
party of the rebel Army who were guarding some of the Kings Troops who 
had been made Prisoners by the Rebels and were then kept prisoners at 
the East End of Lochness. That ever since that time the Declarant 
has been skulking in the Highlands till the 5* June Instant in the 
evening when he was made prisoner at Siletefoord four miles benorth 
Brechin by a party of Gen' Skelton's Regiment, and from thence came 
to Montrose, from thence to Dundee and from that to Perth, but the 
Declarant denys that he had any occasion to the robberies and plunder- 
ings mentioned in the above information against him, and declares he 
cannot at present sign his name as his hand is trembling with fatigue 
and want of Food. 

(Signed) GEO. MILLER. 

Eod Die. 

The Sheriff considering the Confession of the said James Davidson 
and that the above information signed by Capt. Leader against him 
charges the said Davidson with certain robberies and that sufficient 
evidence will be found against him, y^fore ordains the said James 
Davidson to be committed to and detained prisoner within the Tol- 
booth of Perth till he be liberated by due course of Law. And ordains 
a signed copy of the above information and confession and of this 
warrant of commitment to be given to the prisoner if he requires it. 

(Signed) GEO. MILLER. 

Endorsed : — No. 4. in L<i Justice Clerk's 

of Deer ig^ 1747. 



APPENDIX. 503 

(Enclosure V.) 

List of persons proposed to be assisting to Lieutenant 
General Bland in the Execution of the Disarming Act. 

Lieu* General George Churchill. 

The other General Officers who shall be put on the Staff in Scot- 
land. 

Lieu* Colonel David Watson, Deputy Quarter Master General. 

Major William Caulfield, Lieu^ Governour of Inverness. 

Captain Alexander Campbell, Lieu* Governour of Fort William. 

The Lieu* Governour of Fort Augustus when appointed. 

Colin Campbell of Carwhin. 

Captain Duncan Campbell of Inveraw. 

Sir Henry Monro of Fowlis. 

Captain George M^Kay. 

Lieu* John Forbes of New. 

Donald Campbell of Airds. 

Ensign James Stewart, Assistant to the Deputy Quarter Master 
General. 

Mr Neil Campbell belonging to the Ordnance and appointed by 
that Board to receive all the Arms and send them to the 
Tower. 

Endorsed : — No. 5. in L,^ Justice Clerk's Letter 
of Dec^ 15, 1747. 

(Enclosure VL) 

List of Officers of the Army proposed to be added to the 
ordinary Lists of the Justices of peace in all the 
' countys where the disarming act takes place. 

Lieu* General Humphrey Bland. 
Lieu<: General George Churchill. 

The other General Officers who shall be put on the Staff in Scot- 
land. 
Lieut Colonel David Watson, Deputy Quarter Master General. 



504 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Major William Caulfield, Lieu^ Governour of Inverness. 
Captain Alexander Campbell, Lieu* Governour of Fort William. 
Captain Duncan Campbell of Inveraw. 
Sir Henry Monro of Fowlis. 
Captain George M'^Kay. 
Lieut John Forbes of New. 

Ensign James Stewart, Assistant to the Deputy Quarter Master 
General. 

Endorsed : — No 6. in h^ Justice Clerk's Letter 
of Dec' 15, 1747. 



{Enclosure VII.) 
Alexander Garden to the Lord Justice-Clerk. 

My Lord, 

As I understand that M"^ Gordon of Avochie, who has for 
some time past been employed in endeavouring to recover the Compt 
books and papers whereof I was robbed in Sept 1746,^ has given offence 
by appearing openly in several places of the Country, And as the 
recovery of these books and papers are of the utmost consequence to 
me I must beg leave to lay before your Lordship an account of that 
affair, whereby I am hopeful it will appear that he has offended through 
mistake and not design. 

After several vain attempts to recover my papers it was suggested 
to me that John Gordon of Avochie was the most proper person for that 
purpose, seeing he lived near and had a general Acquaintance in the 
Country where several of the robbers were suspected to reside. With 
this view I applied to my Lord Albemarle for a protection to him that 
he might be set at liberty to go about in search of the papers, and my 
Lord was so good as [to] grant him one for two months, which elapsed 
without success. 

After my Lord Albemarle left Scotland, as there was no body in 
this country who had power to grant protections, I applied by my 
friends at London for a protection to him from the Secretary of State, 

1 Cf, supra, No. CLIX. (Enclosure ii.) 



APPENDIX. 505 

and by my returns from thence had reason to beHeve that it would be 
obtained. Of this I acquainted M^s Gordon, Avochie's wife, that she 
might tell her husband, who thereupon immediately set about the 
recovery of the papers. 

Your Lordship will please to observe that the robbers had divided 
my papers amongst them, so that Avochie was under the necessity of 
travelling about from place to place in order to find them out. And 
I don't question but the expectation of the protection made him imagine 
that there was no harm in appearing openly. 

This my Lord is the matter of fact, and if your Lordship is of 
opinion that there has not been any thing done amiss I must presume 
to entreat the favour of your Lordships interest for obtaining the pro- 
tection, which will lay me under the highest obligation, for I am now 
informed that all my books and a great part of my papers are in 
Avochie's hands, and the only thing that prevents my getting possession 
of them is the want of the protection. 

I beg your Lordships forgiveness for this trouble and 

I am, 

My Lord, 
Your Lordships most obedient and most humble Servant, 

(Signed) ALEXR GARDEN. . 

Edinburgh Decem^ 15th 1747. 

To The Right Honourable The Lord Justice Clerk, Edinburgh. 

Endorsed : — No 7. in L^ Justice Clerk's Letter 
of Dec' 15, 1747. 

XLL 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edenb. 19 Dec^^ i747- 
My Lord Duke, 

I have the Honour to send y' Grace inclosed the Lists of the 
Justices of Peace for the Countys of Elgin, commonly called Murray, 
and Cromartie with observations and additions.^ 

' S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 38. No. 52. ^ The list is not in the bundle. 

SSS 



5o6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

I have inclosed a Copy of a Letter from M^ Douglas, storekeeper at 
Fortwilliam, with the latest intelligence from that Countrey. I do not 
hear any thing of a French ship haveing arrived in the west Highlands 
of Scotland &c. further than contained in a Letter from a Correspondent 
in the Isle of Skye, of which I sent your Grace a Copy some time agoe.^ 
I have sent a person through the Rebell Country and shall soon send 
another who may be depended on, and hope to send your Grace some 
certain accounts of what is passing in that Countrey. 

I have the Honour to be with the utmost Respect, 

My Lord Duke 

Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. Dec"^ 25*^. 

(Enclosure.) 
Mr Douglas to the Lord Justice-Clerk. 

Fort William gth Decem^ 1747. 

There was last week a meeting of the greatest part of the principall 
Men of the Camerons at a place two miles from hence. They met 
upon account of the great Theft of Cattle that has been practised by 
the Commonality (more of late than formerly). I had spies amongst 
them and could not learn they had anything further in view. Cameron 
of Fasefern,^ Brother to Lochiel, appointed the Meeting and was with 
them. I have some reason to think there has been some money lately 
distributed amongst the Disaffected, for I perceive a fresh Circulation 
of Lewidors amongst the Highlanders, tho' I have no Intelligence of 
the way they have come by them. I shall not neglect making what 
Enquiry I can and when I learn anything worth notice shall not fail 
writing. 

Endorsed: — Copy of a Letter from M^ Douglas at Fort William, 
9th Dec^ 1747. In the Lord Justice Clerk's Letter of 
Deer 19th 1747. 

^App. No. XXXVin. (Enclosure iii.). ^john Cameron of Fassefern. 



APPENDIX. 507 

XLII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edenb'^ 24 Dec^ i747- 
My Lord Duke, 

I have the Honour and pleasure to send your Grace inclosed 
an Extract of the Tryall and conviction of M^ George Semple, nonjur- 
ing clergy-man at Perth, upon the late Act of Parliament against 
nonjuring Meeting Houses; he was catched on Sunday and the next 
day his Tryall was begun & finished by the zeal & conduct of M^ George 
Miller, Deputy Sheriff of Perth. 

I also send inclosed the Lists of the Justices of Peace for the 
Countys of Caithness and Stirlingshire with observations and additions. 
I have the Honour to be with the utmost Respect, 
My Lord Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 30*^. 

(Enclosure.) 

Process and Sentence against the Rev. George Semple. 

John Robertsone of Tullibellan Esq^ Provost & Sheriff of the Burgh 
of Perth, William Stewart, Robert Marshall, John Stewart & Patrick 
Coupar present Baillies of the said Burgh 

To 

Officers and Serjands of the Same Conjunctly & sealie 
[severally] specially Constitute Greeting. Forasmuch as It is humbly 
meant & showen to us by Walter Miller Pro Fiscal of the Burrane Court 
of the said Burrow for His Majesties Interest That by an Act of Parlia- 
ment made in the Nineteenth year of the Reign of our present sovereign 
Lord King George the Second Intituled an Act more effectually to 
prohibite & prevent Pastors and Ministers from Officiating in Episcopal 

1 S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 38. No. 58. 



508 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Meeting houses in Scotland without duely quahfying themselves accord- 
ing to Law, & to punish persons for Resorting to any Meeting houses 
where such unqualified Pastor or Ministers shall Officiate, It is for the 
weighty Reasons & Causes therein mentioned, among other things En- 
acted, That if any person shall from & after the first day of September 
One Thousand Seven Hundered & fourty six years presume to enter 
upon or Exercise the function of a Pastor or Minister of any Episcopal 
meeting or Congregation in Scotland without having first Caused his 
Letters of Orders Given by some Bishop of the Church of England or 
Ireland to be entered on Record or Registered, or without having first 
qualified himself by taking and subscribing the Oaths in such manner 
as all officers Civil & Military in Scotland are by Law obliged to take, 
and subscribe the Same, & producing to the Clerk of the Shire 
Stewertrie or Burrow where his Meeting house is Situate a Certificate 
from the proper officers of his having so qualified himself by taking the 
Oaths to his Majestie appointed by Law, or without having first pro- 
duced & Caused to be entered in the manner directed by the said Act 
in the books to be kept by the Clerk of the Sheriff, Stewart or Burrow 
Courts Respectively where the person proposes to officiat as a Pastor 
or Minister, his name and place of abode & the place where his meeting 
is to be held, or in Case any person who shall officiate as a Pastor or 
Minister in any such Episcopal Meeting houses or Congregation shall 
not as often as he shall so officiate at some Time during Divine service 
pray for His Majestie by name his heirs & Successors & all the Royal 
family in the manner by the said Act Directed, every person So offend- 
ing in any of the premisses being thereof Lawfully convicted before any 
Two or more Justices of the peace or before any other Judge Com- 
petent of the place, Summarily shall for the first offence suffer Im- 
prisonment by the space of Six months & for the Second or any 
Subsequent offence the other punishments by the said Statute Enacted, 
And by the said Statute it is Enacted & Declared That any meeting 
Assembly or Congregation in Scotland where there shall be five persons 
or more Assembled or mett together to hear Divine Service over & 
besides those of the household if it be in any house where there 
is a family Inhabiting, or if it be any house or place where there 
is no family Inhabiting then where any such five or more persons 
shall be so assembled & mett together to hear Divine service & 



AtPENDiX. 



569 



where Divine Service shall be performed by a Pastor or Minister 
being of or professing to be of the Episcopal Community every 
Such meeting Assembly or Congregation shall be deemed & taken 
to be an Episcopal Meeting house within the true Intent & mean- 
ing of the said Act of Parliament above resited, And by the said 
Statute the said Sherriff & Stewarts & their Deputes & the Magistrates 
of Royal Burrows are Strictly required to make Diligent Enquiry Con- 
cerning any offences Against the said Act, & to Inflict the penaltys 
thereby Imposed as is therein manefully Related, And That True it is 
That Mr George Semple, Episcopal Pastor or Minister, Residing within 
the said Burgh of Perth, having shaken off the fear of God & his 
natural allegiance & obedience to our Sovereign Lord the King & in 
open Contemp of the said Law, he the said M"^ George Semple has pre- 
sumed to Exercise the function of a Pastor or Minister of an Episcopal 
meeting or Congregration within the Town of Perth in Scotland, 
without Recording his Letters of Orders & without producing a 
Certificate of his having taken the Oaths to His Majestic, & with- 
out producing & Causing Enter his Home & place of abode, & the 
place where his meeting was to be held as is Directed by the said 
Statute, In so far as he the said M^ George Semple, without having first 
Qualified ■ himself as aforesaid. Did as a Pastor or Minister of the 
Episcopal Communion Perform Divine Service, where five or more 
persons were assembled & mett together to hear the said Divine 
Service over & besides those of the Houshold where it was performed, 
upon each one or upon one or other of the Lords Days, Sabbath Days 
or Sundays of the Moneths of September, October, November & Decem- 
ber jviic & fourty six years, or of the Moneths of January, Feb- 
ruary, March, Aprile, May, June, July, August, September, & November 
& the Current Month of December jvii'^ & fourty seven years within all or 
one or other of the Dwelling houses or other houses in the said Town of 
Perth possessed or Inhabited by the Persons after named, To witt John 
Hegginson, Merch* in Perth, Watson Relict of the Deceast Patrick 
Davidson Sometime Merch^ & Provost of Perth, Walter Keir Merch* 
there, Davidson Relict of Stewart of Stentan, Robert Wilson Merch* & 
writing Master in Perth, Jean Mercier Relict of the Deceased Mark 
Wood Mercht in Perth, or in some other house or place within the said 
Town of Perth, and particularly he the said M^ George Semple did 



5l6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

presume to perform Divine Service as aforesaid within the said Dwelling 
house of the said Watson Relict of Provost Davidsone upon Sab- 
bath the Twentieth day of December betwixt the hours of Nine fore- 
noon & Two of the clock afternoon or some other time of that Day to 
an Episcopal Meeting or Congregation of five or more persons then & 
there Assembled & mett together to hear the said Divine Service per- 
formed by the said M^ George Semple Attour or besides those of the 
houshold or family of the said Watson, & also True it is that the said 
Mr George Sempell Did not at any of the Times or places above said 
when & where he did perform divine worship as aforesaid pray for his 
Majesty by name & all the Royal family in manner by the said Act 
directed, And Therefore the premisses being found proven the said M^ 
George Semple ought to be decerned & adjudged to suffer Imprisonmt 
by the Space of Six Months in obedience & Conform to the Act of 
Parliament above recited Herefore. It is our will & we Charge you 
Strictly & Command that Incontinent this our precept seen ye pass & 
in His Majesties name & Authority Lawfully Summon warn & Charge 
the s<i Mr George Semple personally or at his Dwelling place to Compear 
befor us in a Burrow Court to be held by us or either of us within the 
Town Clerks Office this day by nine of the Clock forenoon to Answer at 
the Instance of the purs^ in the matter Lybelled with Certification, As 
also that ye Summon warn & Charge To bear Seal and Sooth fast 

Witnessing in the fores^ Action & Cause time and place fores^, And 
this is no waies ye leave, ye which to do we Committ to you & each of 
you as sd is our full power by this our Precept Subscribed by our Clerk 
of Court At Perth this Twenty first day of dec^ jvii'^ & fourty seven 
years. (Signed) G. A. Miller, C[lerk]. 

At Perth & within the Town Clerks office the Twenty first day of 
December jvii^ & fourty Seven years in presence of John Robertson of 
Tullibellan Esq' Provost & Sheriff of Perth, William Stewart, Robert 
Marshall, John Stewart & Patrick Couper present Baillies of the said 
Burgh Compeared personally Walter Miller pro Fiscal of Court purs^ & 
repeated his Lyble Agt the said M"" George Semple Defenr. Compeared 
Likewise personally the said Def"^ & upon openly reading the Lyble in 
Court the said Defr being examined if or not he has produced his Letters 
of Orders to be Recorded or if he did produce a proper Certificate of his 
having taken the Oaths to his Majestic or if he has offered & Caused 



APPENDIX. 511 

Record his name & place of abode & the place where his meeting for 
Worship was to be held, & if or not when he has performed Divine 
Worship in the Town of Perth during the space of Time Lybelled he 
has prayed for his Majestie by name as by the Statute Lybelled on is 
Directed, he the said Def"^ did Answer to all these questions in the 
Negative & gives this reason, that as he has hitherto had no Intention 
to Exercise the function of a Pastor or Minister to any Episcopal meet- 
ing or Congregation in the Terms of the Statute Lybelled on he has not 
therefore observed the Conditions & Qualifications Enacted by the 
Statute, & the said Def^ being further Interrogated if or not he has at 
any of the times & places Lybelled performed Divine Service where five 
or more persons were assembled to hear the said service performed 
Attour & besides those of the household where it was performed He 
Answers in the Negative, & being asked if he the Def^ is a Pastor or 
Minister of the Episcopal Communion or profeses himself to be such, 
he answers in the Affirmative. (Signed thus) George Sempell, Jo. 
Robertsone. 

Then the Pro"" Fiscal Insisted That the Lyble is Relevant as to 
each of the Times & places & facts Lybelled since the first of Septem^ 
jviic & fourty Six, yet as he has had Time only to bring prooff of the 
Defr his having performed divine Service yesterday in the manner 
Lybelled, he the purs^ ought to be allowed to adduce the prooff of that 
fact now & another day Assigned for his proving the other facts Lybelled, 
which being Considered by the Provost & Baillies They find the Lybell 
as to the fact done by the Defr yesterday Relevant to Inferr the punish- 
ment Lybelled & admitts the same to the purses Probation & they delay 
the advising of the Relevancy of the Lybell as to the other facts 
Lybelled till the day of 

(Signed thus) Jo. Robertsone. 

Then the persons afternamed who are Cited as witnesses in this 
process being Called they Compeared and Deponed as follows. 

William Harper, Corporal in Cap*^ Leader's Company of Lieut. 
Gen' Henry Skeltons Reg* of foot lying at Perth, Married, aged thirty 
one years, Witness admitted purged of partial Council Sworn and Ex- 
amined Depones that yesterday the Twentieth Current about a quarter 



512 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

of an hour after Eleven of the Clock forenoon he the Deponent with 
Benjamin Bird, Corporal in Gen^ Skelton's own Company, went to the 
house of Walter Kier Merch* in the street of Perth called the Watter 
gate where they did see one of the Conducters of his Majesties Train 
of Artillery at Perth who told them that he believed they would 
find what they wanted in the house Immediately below that, on which 
they went down stairs to the Dwelling house of Watson 

relict of Provost Davidson late of Perth & finding the outer door open 
they went in & having heard within a Room on their Right hand, 
the door of which was Shutt, the voice of a man either preaching 
or reading prayers as they took it, they agreed to enter that Room, & 
Corporal Bird having gently knocked & then offering to turn the Sneck 
& open the door Two Women who the Deponent believes are the Ser- 
vant maids of the house Came out to them from the Kitchen, one of 
them having her head bear & her Tay or Cape in her hand & insisted 
with the Deponent and Corporal Bird not to enter that Room, but he 
the Deponent & Corporal Bird having both entered the room they Did 
then see & observe the Def^ M^ George Semple standing there with a 
Little book open in his hand & a large book shutt with silver clasps 
lying on the Table, & did thefi see the said Defr hastily pull off from 
his own neck something in the form of a Band & at the same time they 
did see several men & women raysing up hastily from their knees within 
that room and the Deponent having numbered them he found them to 
be Ten men & women & four boys, the youngest of whom appeared to 
be about Ten years of age, besides the Defen^". Depones That as this 
meeting or Assembly seemed to be affrighted when the Deponent and 
Corporal Bird entered the Room they told them they would give them 
no disturbance, on which a young Gentlewoman in a plaid or Tartan 
Gown asked who had sent them there, to which they answered that 
they had no Intention to affright or Interrupt their meeting & a little 
after the meeting disperst without proceeding further in divine Service, 
& what he hath Deponed is Truth as he shall answer to God. (Signed 
thus) Willm Harper, Jo Robertsone. 

The above named and designed Benjamin Bird, unmarried, aged 
Twenty seven years, Witnes admitted Sworn purged of partial Council 
& Examined, Depones alike to the preceeding Witness William Harper 
with these Variations only. That he does not Remember the Conducter 



APPENDIX, 513 

of the Train directed them to M's Davidsones house, That he did not 
observe a large book lying on the Table & that tho' he did then see a 
Band on the Defr M"" Scrapie's neck he did not observe then pull it off, 
& v^hat he hath Deponed is Truth as he shall answer to God. (Signed 
thus) Benj. Bird, Jo Robertsone. 

Then the Def^ M"" Scrapie alleadges That there were present with 
him in the raeeting yesterday Deponed to by the two witnesses the 
persons afternaraed who are of M^s Davidson houshold or family. To 
wit Mrs Davidson herself, — Watson her sister, Relict of — Settan, 
brother to Carreston, Anna Davidson, M^^ Davidsons Dau^, Patrick 
Davidson, son of the deceast Patrick Davidson of Woodmiln, Thomas 
Robertson late of Mucklie presently a Lodger in M's Davidsons house, 
& William Pourie Labourer or workman in the Town of Perth, who the 
Def'^ alleadges is M^s Davidsons hired Servant & receives his daily food 
and wages in her family, at least eats some tiraes there & receives his 
wadges frora her termly tho' he lodges with his wife in his own separate 
dwelling house in Perth, at least the Defr thinks this Pourie was present 
in the meeting yesterday, & further the Def"^ alleadges that there were 
no young boys in that meeting excepting John and Patrick Kiers, Sons 
to Walter Kier Merch*, the eldest of whom is about Ten years & the 
youngest about nine years of Age & who the Dei^ thinks cant be 
Reckoned Members of a Congregation. (Signed thus) George Sempill, 
Jo Robertsone. 

To which allegiance of the Def^s the Pro Fiscal makes Answer 
That Thomas Robertsone late of Mucklie who has no further Concern 
in Mrs Davidsones family than to lodge in her house when he Comes 
occasionally to the Town of Perth & is a doer or Servant to the Earle 
of Weeyraess & Resides for the most part at his house or the house of 
Gask, That William Pourie by the Description the def^ himself has 
given of him, tho' that were proved, he Can no more be reckoned of M^s 
Davidsones household or family than any other Burgess or Inhabitant 
of the Town who might have frequently business with her & so come 
to her house, & the purs^ can prove that the said Pourie is ordinarily 
employed by the Inhabitants of the Town amongst the other publick 
workmen who Labour for dayly hire to any person that eraploys thera, 
That Walter Kiers two Sons are of an age very Capable of Instruction 
& prone to drink in good or bad principles & of Joining in Divine 

TTT 



514 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Service, And further the purs'" Contends that altho' the whole Eight 
persons mentioned by the Def^ Could be Legally Cut off from the 
Number of the assembly or Congregation who did meet to hear the Def'' 
perform divine Service yesterday, wich the purs' Cannot Grant, yet 
there would still remain the number of six persons in that meeting 
besides the Def"^ himself, so that in whatever light this affair is taken 
the Article of the Lyble found Relevant is Cleirly proved, & therefore 
the punishment Incurred by the Def' ought to be Inflicted in obedience 
to the Statute. (Signed thus) Wal. Miller, Jo. Robertsone. 

Thereafter the Def'^ Contended that the Lybell Cannot be found 
proven in Terms of the Statute in regard the witnesses do not depone 
That the def' did at that time & place perform divine worship, but that 
they only Swear that thro' a Shutt door they heard the voice of a man 
preaching or praying as they took it but do not Condescend whether it 
was preaching or praying. To which the purs' Answers that besides 
what the Witnesses Sware as to preaching or praying they do positively 
Swear that they Saw that Congregation on their knees in a worshiping 
posture & the def' amongst them with a book open in his hand, with a 
band about his neck, tho' he does not ordinarily wear one in a week 
day, & that the Def' proposeing a defence as to the number of M's 
Davidsones family was useless if there was not divine worship performed 
in that meeting, which his proposeing that defence Supposes to be true. 

Eod Die 
The Provost & Baillies having advised this Cause Finds the Article 
of the Lyble found Relevant is proven And Therefore Decerns & 
adjudges the Def' M' George Sempell to suffer Imprisonment by the 
space of six months from & and after this Day in Terms of the Act of 
Parliam* Lybelled And Accordingly They Ordain the s^ M' George 
Semple to be Committed to the Tolbooth of Perth there to be detained 
in sure Custody during the iors^ space. (Signed) Jo. Robertson, Will. 
Stewart, Robert Marshall, John Stewart, Patt' Couper. 

That what is Contained in the ten preceeding Pages is an exact 
Copy of the prinll Process is attested by 

GEO. A. MILLER. 
Endorsed : — In the L^ Justice Clerk's 
of Dec. 24, 1747. 



APPENDIX. 515 

XLIII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Brunstain 31st Decemr 1747. 

My Lord Duke, 

By a Letter I had from George Miller, Deputy Shirriff of 
Perth and Procurator Fiscal (that is Carrier on of Prosecutions) before 
the Magistrates of Perth, I find that these Magistrates are beginning to 
think that they have gone far enough in trying Convicting and Sen- 
tenceing M^ George Semple, nonjuring Minister, upon the late Act (a 
copy of their proceedings I had the honour to transmitt to your Grace 
some posts ago), for the Magistrates are making some delay in proceed- 
ing to execute the Law against the Hearers of the said M^" George 
Semple, which I am informed is owing to the Magistrates being 
reproached by some Evil designing, or at least foolish persons, for their 
being the first Magistrates in Scotland who have put the law against 
Nonjuring Meeting houses in execution, and M^ Miller has also Stated a 
Doubt whether the punishing the Hearers might not at this time render 
the prooff more difficult against other Nonjuring Ministers. 

I have the honour to transmitt to your Grace a copy of a Letter 
I have wrote to M^ Miller on this occasion to be shown to the Magis- 
trates of Perth, which I hope may have the desired effect. 

I have also inclosed Lists of the Justices of peace for the Countys 
of Kincardine and Forfar with observations and additions. General 
Bland will inform Your Grace of the latest Intelligence from the West 
Highlands. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost Respect 
My Lord Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

i S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 38. No. 61. 



5l6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

(Enclosure.) 
The Lord Justice-Clerk to George Miller. 

29 Dec^ 1747. 

Sir, 

The Tryal and conviction of M^ George Sempil Nonjuring 
Clergyman was carried on and conducted with so much spirit and zeal 
that it gave General Bland and me and I believe every good Subject 
great pleasure and Satisfaction. The Magistrats of Perth and you 
have thereby great merit. I transmitted the copy of the process and 
Sentence against M' George Sempil by the very first post to His Grace 
the Duke of Newcastle and did not fail to do Justice both to them and 
you upon that occasion. 

It is absolutely necessary to put the Laws in execution also against 
the Hearers of M^ Sempil, and the prudential arguments that you sugest 
for any delay in that matter have no weight with me. The officers of 
the Law ought always to put the Laws in execution be the consequences 
what they will. Besides in this case I think that the Arguments that 
you sugest rather cut the other way, and I need only trouble you with 
mentioning one consideration which will show the necessity of putting 
the Laws in execution against the Hearers as well as the Preachers, viz. 
that while the Hearers hope for Impunity there will always be found 
Preachers hardy enough to run all risque. But if the Hearers be once 
touch'd they will be sooner deterred from transgressing the Laws, And 
therefore As the Magistrats of Perth have had the honour to be the 
first Judges who have put the late Act of Parliament in execution 
against Nonjurant Ministers, I am perswaded they will not (upon the 
least reflection) permit themselves to lose the credit they have already 
got, nor neglect to put the Act in execution likeways against the Hearers 
when they have such a fair opportunity in their hands as they now have 
against five of M^ Sempil's Hearers, And I beg that they may disregard 
the Reflections of the Jacobites and their Agents on this and all other 
occasions, And that they may behave like Men zealous for His Majestys 
Service and active in their duty for putting the Laws in execution, which 
are so necessary for the preservation of the peace and quiet of His 
Majestys Government and our happy Constitution. 

Endorsed : — In the L,^ Justice Clerk's 
of Dec. 31, 1747. 



XLIV. 
The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Sheriff of Aberdeen.^ 

Copy. Edinburgh 4th JanT 1748. 

Sir, 

I have enclosed the principal answers to the case which as I 
am informed relates to two Meeting houses if not more in your County. 
You will therefore according to the orders formerly sent to you in 
obedience to His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, His Majesty's principal 
Secretary of State's Commands give directions for carrying on immediate 
prosecutions against the Ministers of these Meeting houses and you 
shall be reimbursed of all charges laid out in that affair. 

You will also be pleased to send me a note of the names of the 
principal persons who support and frequent these meeting houses, 

I am &c. 

(Signed) ANDR FLETCHER. 
Sheriff of Aberdeen. 

Endorsed : — In L^ Justice Clerk's Letter 
of Jany 19, 1747/8. 

(Enclosure.) 

Answer to a Querie upon the Laws Concerning Episcopal 
Meeting houses in Scotland. 

The following querie has been sent to me by The Lord Justice 
Clerk that I might give my opinion upon the same. 

Whether Pastors who had officiated in Episcopal Meeting houses 
in Scotland before the Act of the 19th of the Kings and in pursuance of 
that Act did qualify themselves by taking the oaths on or before the i^t 
of September 1746 are entitled to the benefit of the Act of Toleration 
passed in the lo^h of Queen Anne if they have received orders from the 
hands of a Scots Protestant Bishop altho' their Letters of orders were 
not recorded before the said i^t Sep* 1746. 

^ S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 39. No. 2. 



5l8 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Answer. By the Act of the 10*^ of Queen Anne every such Pastor 
or Minister before he can take upon him to officiate as such is oblidged 
and required to present his Letters of Orders to the Justices of peace at 
their General or Quarter Sessions to be entered on record, and by the 
Act of the ig^^h of the King it is enacted that from and after the i^t day 
of Sept 1746 No Letters of Orders of any Pastor or Minister of any 
Episcopal Meeting or Congregation in Scotland shall be deemed suffi- 
cient or be admitted to be registered but such as have been given by 
some Bishop of the Church of England or of Ireland. And in case any 
Letters of Orders other than such as are before described shall be 
registered, such registration shall be deemed null and void to all intents 
and purposes. And as the Law stands by these two Statutes I cannot 
see how such ministers can be intitled to the benefit of the Act of 
Toleration passed in the 10*^ of Queen Anne as have not presented and 
caused to be recorded their Letters of orders as that Act requires to 
intitle them to that toleration, for if this condition has not been com- 
plied with on or before the i^t day of September 1746, The Act of the 
ig* of the King makes it now too late to register any Letters of Orders 
but such as have been given by some Bishop of the Church of England 
or of Ireland and declares the Registration of any other Letters of 
Orders to be null and void to all intents and purposes. 
This is the humble opinion of 

(Signed) WILLIAM GRANT. 

Edinb 4 Janry 1748. 

Endorsed : — 4* Jan^y 1748. 

Transmitted of the date to the Sheriff of Aberdeen. 
In Ld Justice Clerk's of Jany ig, 1747/8. 

XLV. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Salton igth of Jan' 1747/8. 
My Lord Duke, 

General Bland sent your Grace last week an account of 
the seizing M^ Alexander Greig, Nonjuring Minister, preaching to a 

1 S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 39. No. 6, 



APPENDIX. 519 

numerous congregation at Stonehaven in the County of Kincairden, 
with the behaviour of the Deputy Sheriff thereupon, and that I had 
wrote to the Deputy Sheriff to send me an Account of his conduct. I 
have now the honour to send your Grace enclosed a Copy of the Deputy 
Sheriffs Letter to me and of my answer to him, with a Copy of the Lord 
Advocates signed opinion transmitted to the Deputy Sheriff, to all which 
I beg leave to refer and to beg your Grace's further directions. 

I send also enclosed a Copy of Lord Advocates opinion upon the 
case of at least Two Meeting Houses lately set up in the County of 
Aberdeen, together with a Copy of my letter enclosing the same to the 
Sheriif of Aberdeen, and I shall be glad if what I have done shall meet 
with your Grace's approbation. I have not yet had an Answer from the 
Sheriff, but shall have the honour to transmit a Copy of it how soon I 
receive it. 

I am certainly informed that there are French passes come from 
Bourdeaux (by way of Holland) to some merchants at Edinburgh for 
importing corn to France ; I do not hear that any Merchant here has 
as yet attempted to make use of any of these Passes. 

I send enclosed Lists of the Justices of Peace that now are for the 
County of Bamff and Dumbarton, with observations and additions. I 
have not had the honour to know if the method I have observed in these 
Lists meets with your Graces approbation. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 

P.S. — The Provost of Ed"^ when I spoke to him yesterday had not 
got any information from those employed to observe the proceedings of 
the Non-juring Ministers and their Hearers at Edinburgh. 

Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 25. 



S20 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

(Enclosure.) 

The Deputy-Sheriff of Kincardineshire to the Lord 
Justice-Clerk. 
Copy. 

Stonehive, 12*^ Jan^y 1747/8. 
My Lord, 

I received yours of the 9*^ cur* and am very sorry that your 
Lordship or His Excellency General Bland should get any trouble 
anent my Conduct in my Office. I could easily make it appear that 
the cause proceeds from the party here being commanded by a young 
man, But as this [is] no complaint upon my person but an answer to 
the charge against myself I proceed to answer your Lordships Letter. 

In terms of the late Act of Parliament and the order sent to my 
Lord Kintore, a copy of which His Lordship sent me, I made inquiry 
anent the Nonjuring Meeting houses. 

In the time of the late Rebellion there were Six Meeting houses in 
this County. 

In October 1746 I caused summonds before me Twenty four 
persons I was informed were ordinary hearers, four for each Meeting 
house, and on the 31st of that month examined them all upon oath, 
and they all deposed they knew no Meeting house in the shire contrary 
to the said Act of Parliament. 

About the beginning of December 1747 I caused Summonds before 
me other Twenty four persons I was informed were hearers, and on the 
iQth of that month I examined them all (except one absent on account 
of sickness) on oath, and they all deposed they knew no Meeting house 
in the County contrary to the said Act of Parliament. 

On Saturday the 2^ day of January instant, Lieu*^ Marks Weeks of 
General Blackneys Reg* who commands here came to me, and said he 
had very lately got some orders anent the Nonjuring Clergy but pro- 
duced none. He asked a warrant to take up some of them. I told him of 
the Enquiry I had made so late as the 10* of December last and offered 
to show him the witnesses Depositions, and at same time told him I did 
not think I was warranted by the late Act of Parliament to imprison 
them before they were convict, therefore gave no warrant. I must do 
M'^ Weeks the justice to acknowledge that sometime before he showed 
me the General's order anent Nonjuring Meeting houses, &c. 



APPENDIX, 521 

On Sunday the 3<1 of January instant in the Evening M^ Weeks 
informed that in the time Mr Greig, a Nonjuring Minister, was per- 
forming Divine Worship in a house in this Town to a numerous 
Congregation ; he had made him and all the Congregation prisoners, 
had them under Guard and required me to receive them off his hand, 
which I went to do and found two Centrys at the door of the house and 
a party of Soldiers within. I received M"" Greig, then asked the officer 
for the Congregation but If ever there was such a congregation met or 
what was become of them I know not. 

One thing I know he had not one of them to deliver to me. 

M'' Greig offered bail to compear at any time when called by a 
Citation personally or at his Dwelling house to answer to M^ Weeks 
information. And instantly before I left the room I seed lodged in the 
Clerks hands a Bail bond subscribed by a Responsible man to present 
M"" Greig as above under the faillie of five hundred merks, upon which 
I set him at liberty. And that very same week there was raised and 
execute against him a Criminal Summonds to the 29*1^ cur' founded on 
the late Act against Nonjuring Ministers. 

As to the other part of your Lordships Letter there was never 
another application made to me by the Military for any Warrant nor 
did I ever grant any Warrant to them, but one to M^ Weeks to search 
for and apprehend Alex^ Garioch of Mergie in consequence of the order 
sent by my Lord Kintore, and I was so anxious to keep it secret that I 
walked out in the fields with M' Weeks and told him what he was to 
do. He observed all my directions except as to the hour of marching 
his party, the place to be searched being three miles distant. It was 
my opinion he should not move his party until betwixt 4 & 5 in the 
morning (this being in the beginning of November). But he marched 
betwixt 6 and 7 at night, and as I was afterwards informed, a friend of 
M"^ Garioch's took suspicion at calling the soldiers and run his servant 
express to Mergie, which servant the soldiers met in his return before 
they got to the house. 

Any person in publick office that do not most faithfully keep such 
warrants secret is at least guilty of betraying his trust, which I never 
did nor shall do. 

In obedience to your Lordship's Letter I shall order new prosecu- 
tions against all the other Nonjuring Ministers in this country and shall 

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522 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

cause prosecute the hearers. I do assert that in this long letter I have 
not said anything but what is matter of fact and can be evidenced, So 
I hope your Lordship will see that my conduct could not have been 
otherways consistent with Law. 

I have the honour to be 

My Lord, 
Your LoPs most obed*^ hum^e Serv* 

(Signed) JO. YOUNG. 
To The Right HonWe The Lord Justice Clerk. 

Copy of the Lord Justice-Clerk's Answer. 

Brunston, 15 January 1748. 
Sir, 

I received yours dated at Stonehive the 12* instant, and 
taking for granted that what you say in the conclusion of your letter, 
that every fact asserted in your long letter is true, it does not from thence 
follow that you have proceeded in any reasonable or effectual way to 
give obedience to the orders transmitted to you by the principal Sheriff 
The Earl of Kintore, either with respect to seizing the persons attainted 
or excepted in the late Act of Indemnity, or putting the Law in Execu- 
tion against Nonjuring Meeting houses. Your method of calling some 
hearers of every nonjuring Preacher within your bounds and examining 
them if they knew of any meeting house contrary to the late Act of 
parliament, as it makes them Judges of the Law, and for many other 
obvious reasons, was by no means a proper measure for discovering the 
truth (however specious it may appear), for you see in the very Town of 
Stonehive, where your Court sits, M^ Alex' Greig a Nonjuring Minister 
has been seized preaching to a numerous Congregation ; and then with 
respect to the disappointment Lieu* Marks Weeks and his party met 
with in seizing Alexander Garioch of Mergie, a person excepted in the 
late Act of Indemnity, by the said Garioch's having timely intelligence 
from Stonehive, looks ill ; the rather that after you had received the 
orders from the Earl of Kintore you made no step to apprehend him, 
tho' I am pretty well informed that it consisted with your knowledge 
that he was living in or about his house of Mergie. I have mentioned 



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APPENDIX. 523 

these things to you in the light they appear to me, that you may see 
the necessity of doing something to purpose to put the directions you 
have received from the Sheriff principal, The Earl of Kintore, in execu- 
tion not only as a service due to your King and Country, but like ways 
out of regard to your own character as the only means to wipe off the 
reflections that have been made upon your past conduct, which prosecu- 
tions without proper Evidence first obtained will not do, and therefore 
in all prosecutions it will be necessary that you transmit the precog- 
nitions to the King's Lawiers in order to have their opinion, and upon 
such doubts or difficultys as may arise to yourself in carrying on these 
prosecutions. 

I herewith transmit to you a copy of Lord Advocates opinion upon 
a case similar to M^ Greig's, an attempt to evade the late Act of parlia- 
ment by preaching in a Closet to a Congregation in other rooms of the 
same house. 

I conclude with wishing that by your future conduct you may con- 
vince all His Majesty's true friends of your zeal for His Majesty's service 
in the execution of your office. 

I am. Sir, 
Your most humble Serv' 

(Signed) AND. FLETCHER. 

Copy of Lord Advocate's Opinion. 

19 Decem^ 1747. I have considered the copy of part of a letter 
from Mr George Miller Sheriff Depute of Perthshire relating to the con- 
duct of some Episcopal Clergy of that County, in which he desires to be 
informed touching some doubts that arises to him anent the execution 
of the late Act of parliament of the 19th of His present Majesty, 
Intituled, an Act more effectually to prohibite and prevent Pastors or 
Ministers from officiating in Episcopal Meeting houses in Scotland &c. 
In Answer to which letter I am of opinion that M"^ George Semple and 
Mr Innes, nonjuring Episcopal Clergymen, residing in the Town of 
Perth, They or either of them presuming to preach in any room of a 
house to five persons over and besides those of the household. They are 
liable to the penalty of six months imprisonment for the first fault. 



524 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Nor does it seem to make any difference that the rest of their congrega- 
tion over and above the number limited by Law were hearing them 
preach in other rooms of the same house. 

(Signed) WILLIAM GRANT. 

Endorsed : — In L^ Justice Clerk's 
of Janry 19, 1747/8. 



XLVI. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, 28 Jan. 1747/8. 
My Lord Duke, 

Since the Reports from Liverpool and other places, of Arms 
and Ammunition having been landed in the North West Highlands of 
Scotland, I have made all the inquiry I could (in a Country still 
possessed by the disaffected) to discover what truth was in these reports, 
and any other matter that might be of service to the Government, and 
I have the honour herewith to transmit to your Grace copys of the 
Letters I have received, all from persons well affected to his Majestys 
Government, by which it continues to be certainly true, That the 
disaffected are still buoyed up with the Expectation of Invasions, and 
so distracted as to be ready and prepared to join in another Rebellion, 
and I am afraid they may continue in that wicked disposition, the Dupes 
of France &c. till some proper methods are laid down and followed out 
with spirit, for taking possession of their Country, and effectually dis- 
arming and Civilizeing them. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 

My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 
Endorsed : — Rd. Feb. 3. 

^S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 39. No. 9. 



Appendix. 525 

{Enclosure.) 

Intelligence. 
Copy. 

Barra Island, January 8*^ 1748. 

We had here Reports of the landing of French in the Highlands, 
and when that was over, that of a French Ship at Lochnanuagh went 
about. All we see from Sky affirm it as certain and those we see from 
the main land deny it. If there be any truth in it they are either come 
with Incendiarys to prepare and spirit up people for another Rebellion, 
or for the Treasure they left behind the other year. There is a Priest 
just now among us and Popery and Jacobitism is revived among us. 
He tells he had Letters from Bishop Mcdonald and his brethren abroad 
of late, and gives the people great hopes of a second attempt and a 
better laid scheme ; 'tis true 'tis their business to say so whatever may 
be the grounds of their assertion. 

Copy. 

Barnera, January 6*^ 1748. 

As to the news bearing that a ship had arrived in the neighbour- 
hood of the Isle of Sky with Arms &c. for the Pretender's use, I made it 
my business to cross over from this place to the Isle of Sky under 
pretence of buying some Goods, and after taking the narrowest and 
utmost information in the most secret and prudent manner, I am per- 
swaded the Report was groundless and altogether a Farce. Be assured 
that when anything of this kind happens you shall have timeous Adver- 
tisement, and for that purpose I design soon to make another step into 
the Island of Sky. 

Copy. Airds, 13* January 1748. 

In the neighbourhood of the Camerons. 
The Camerons are at present greatly buoyed up with fresh expecta- 
tions of an intended Invasion, and from several persons of Credit I am 
informed that by the spirit, stir and whisperings amongst the disaffected 
party something new is upon the Anvile, and that an Invasion is not 
only looked upon as certain but at hand. A landing in England and 
Scotland is talked of at the same time, and all those who do not join to 



$26 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

be destroyed with fire and sword. I heard several of them say that had 
they begun the last Rebellion in that way it had gone better with them. 

There is a report of two ships being lately on the North Coast and 
that there was money remitted by the King of Spain, on whom they 
now depend as much as on the Monarch of France. 

I was told a Correspondence is carried on by the rebels abroad 
with the disaffected in Scotland by the Conveyance of one M' Forbes, 
Merchant in Rotterdam. 

Copy, 

Fort William, 17*^ January 1748. 

The person I mentioned in my last is not yet returned. But I had 
a letter from him this day wherein he assures me of his speedy return 
and expects to have success, at least all that can be discovered in that 
disaffected country. So that by my next I hope to be in a condition to 
write you more fully and particularly ; all that I shall now say is that 
it still continues to be whispered, and in my opinion not unlikely, that 
some warlike Stores have lately been landed in Clanronalds Country or 
Isles thereabouts. 

Copy. 

Inveraray, 21st January 1748. 

As for Doctor Cameron, brother to Lochiel, all the intelligence I 
can get of him is that he returned to France in Harvest last and was 
very little in this County, only in Lochaber and Suinard. 

Endorsed : — In h^ Justice Clerk's 
of Janry 28, 1747/S. 

XLVII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Febr. 3d 1747/8. 
My Lord Duke, 

I take the opportunity of a Private Express to transmitt to 
your Grace a copy of a Letter I this moment received from a friend in 

^ S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 39. No. 12. 



APPENDIX. 527 

Lochabar. Though I have no reason to give Credit to it, as the letters 
from Fort William of that date mention no such thing, and as it comes 
to the informer by report, I take it to be the Lye of the day ; however 
it shows the wicked disposition of these Banditti, and the necessity of 
some speedy and effectual remedy. How soon I receive any further 
accounts I shall have the honour to transmitt them to your Grace. 
I have the honour to be with the utmost Respect, 
My Lord Duke. 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 7. 

{Enclosure.) 

Intelligence. 
Copy} 

January 26* 1748. 

The person mentioned in my last two letters is this day returned. 
He assures me that Syphax continues in the Kingdom, and that it is 
likely some disturbance shall happen 'twixt him and the Dorians and 
^tolians, on account of some goods entrusted to his charge upon the 
departure of the young Mogul. As my friend passed through the 
^tolian G — his territories, he was informed that 18 ships were seen 
off the Venetian Country, and that one of them came to a harbour, and 
that instantly there was an Express sent for the ^Etolian G — his Factor, 
who immediately upon receipt repaired in great hurry the 20*^ instant 
to said ship ; he was not returned the 24*. This day I have dispatched 
my friend for said country, and hopes by next post to be in condition to 
inform you the result of the Factor's journey &c. There are great hopes 
and Expectations, and nothing but stealing and plundering prevailing in 
all quarters hereabouts. 

Endorsed : — In the Lord Justice Clerk's letter 
of Febry. 3<5 1748. 

^ Cf. Lang, Companions of Pickle, p. 139, where an extract of this letter is printed. 



528 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 



Key to a letter dated 26 J any 1748, 



Syphax 


Clunie Mcpherson. 


Dorians 


Camerons. 


^tolians . 


M^donalds. 


Mogul 


. , The Pretender. 


Atolian G . 


M^donalds of Glengary. 


Venetians . 


M^leods of the Isle of Sky 



Endorsed : — In L^ Justice Clerk's Letter 
of Febry. 3^ 1748. 



XLVIII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Ed^ 6 Febr. 1747/8. 
My Lord Duke, 

The Report of 18 ships having been seen off the Island of 
Skye, of which I had the honour to acquaint your Grace, has been 
wrote to me by another correspondent, but as it is in the same words, 
and with the very same circumstances, I am perswaded it proceeds 
from the same authority, and therefore adds nothing to the Credibility 
of that report, which now hourly diminishes ; for if that story had been 
true, I should have had accounts of it from many different places and 
persons. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect, 
My Lord Duke, 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 12. 



^ S. P. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 39. No. 14. 



APPENDIX. 529 

XLIX. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edinburgh, 29th Feb. 1748. 

My Lord Duke, 

I had the honour of your Grace's Commands of the iSt^h^ and 
it gives me the greatest pleasure and satisfaction to know that my 
Attention [to] his Majesty's Service in prepareing the Scheme for civiHz- 
ing the Highlands, which I had the honour to transmit to your Grace,^ 
has met with the Kings Approbation, and that his Majesty has been 
pleased to order it to be considered by his Ministers. 

I am very glad to know that some proposals are to be made to 
parliament for perfecting the great work, which has already been begun, 
for quieting and improving the Highlands, and I am perswaded that his 
Majesty's servants in Scotland will use their utmost endeavour that any 
provisions that shall be made by parliament for that purpose be duely 
and effectually executed. 

It, gives me particular pleasure to know that the King approves of 
General Bland's conduct in the important Commission he is Honoured 
with by his Majesty, particularly in the steps he has taken to put in 
execution the Laws made for the support of his Majestys Government, 
and reestablishing and securing the peace and tranquility of the Country. 
I shall do my best endeavour to obey his Majesty's commands in con- 
tinuing to assist and support M^ Bland in everything that relates to the 
Public service, and immicdiately upon receiving Your Grace's Letter 
I communicated to M' Bland my having received these orders, I had 
the honour some time ago to acquaint your Grace that orders were sent 
to the Sheriff of Aberdeen to prosecute some Episcopal ministers in 
Aberdeenshire, who though they had taken the oaths to the Govern- 
ment as the late Act of Parliament directs, yet they had not recorded 
their Letters of Orders from a Protestant Bishop, agreeable to the Act 
of the iQth of the Queen, or the late Act of Parliament, and yet had 
opened their meeting houses contrary to these Laws ; And I then had 

^ S. P, Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 39. No, 33. ^ Supra, p. 480. 

XXX 



530 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

the honour to send your Grace a Copy of Lord Advocates opinion ^ 
concerning such Prosecution. Upon the Sheriffs making preparation 
for such Prosecution, by trying to find out Evidence, These Ministers 
gave Obedience to the Law, so far as to desist from that time from all 
further public worship, and I have had sent me ane opinion that they 
got of Council learned in the Law, whereof I have enclosed a Copy, by 
which it seems they have been mislead, and thought they were not 
acting disagreeable to the Statute. General Bland and I have talked 
over this affair, and concerted that I should give your Grace this 
account of the steps hitherto taken, in order to receive your Grace's 
direction, whether the Prosecution should still proceed, or if it should 
be superceeded, in respect of the erroneous opinion of their Councill. 

The greatest difficulty in these prosecutions against nonjuring 
Ministers and their hearers is to find proper Evidence. It is much 
doubted here if the transgressions against these Acts can be proved by 
Oath of Party, and if that doubt was removed by statute or other ways, 
and proof by partys Oath allowed, it would make the execution of the 
Law more easy and certain. 

My answer to that part of your Grace's Letter that concerns the 
Deputy Sheriffs has swelled so much, that I thought it best to put it in 
a paper, a part herewith enclosed, and as there remains little time for 
any more Letters on that Subject, I have taken the liberty to say every 
thing that occurred to me on that subject that could contribute to his 
Majestys service, without confineing my self strictly to what was 
required of me, and I beg leave to observe that it is no easy matter to 
find a sufficient number of Advocates duely qualified to be Sheriff 
Deputes in every County of Scotland. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect 
My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Duke of Newcastle.! 

Endorsed : — Rd. March 7. By Express. 

1 Cf. supra, p. 517, 



APPENDIX. 531 

{Enclosure I.) 
Memorial and Queries. 

By a Statute passed in the 10*^ year of Queen Anne, Entitled an 
Act to prevent the disturbing those of the Episcopal Communion in 
that part of Great Britain called Scotland in the Exercise of their 
Religious Worship &c. It is enacted " That it shall be free and 
" lawful in that part of Great Britain called Scotland to meet and 
" assemble for the Exercise of Divine Worship to be performed after 
" their own manner by Pastors ordained by a Protestant Bishop and 
** who are not Established Ministers of any Church or parish, and to 
" use in the Congregations the Liturgy of the Church of England if 
"they think fit without any Lett" &c. Provided always "that none 
" shall presume to Exercise the Function of a Pastor in the said Epis- 
" copal Meetings and Congregations except such as shall have received 
" Holy orders from the hands of a Protestant Bishop, and that every 
" person who shall be called or appointed to be a Pastor or Minister of 
" any Episcopal Congregation or Assembly, before he takes upon him to 
" officiate as Pastor of the said Congregation, be hereby obliged and 
" required to present his Letters of Orders to the Justices of peace at their 
" General or Quarter Sessions to be held for the Shire, Stewartry, City, 
" Town or other place in which the said Episcopal Congregation is or 
" shall be. And that the said Letters of Orders be entered on Record 
" by the Register or Clerk of the said Meeting of the Justices, for which 
" there shall be no greater fee or reward taken than the sum of One 
" Shillings " — And it is further enacted " That all and every person and 
" persons who shall hereafter be Pastor or Pastors of any Episcopal 
" Congregation in Scotland shall be obliged and are hereby required on 
" or before the i^t day of August next to come to take the oaths &c. in 
" such manner and under such penaltys as all officers Civil and Military 
" in Scotland are obliged &c." And to pray for the Queen and all the 
Royal Family under the penaltys therein mentioned. 

By a Statute of His present Majesty proceeding upon a Recital, 
" That during the reign of His present Majesty and of His late 
" Majesty King George the i^t a great number of Meeting houses have 
" been set up and maintained in the City of Edinburgh and other 



532 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

" parts of Scotland by persons professing to be of the Episcopal Corri- 
*' munion whereof the Pastors or Ministers have never taken the Oaths 
" to His Majesty or his Royal Father or ever did in express words 
" during the exercise of Divine Worship pray for His Majesty and the 
" Royal Family, By means whereof these illegal Meetings have greatly 
" contributed to excite and foment a spirit of disaffection amongst 
" numbers of persons in that part of the Kingdom against His Majesty's 
"person and Government, which hath been one of the causes of the 
" Wicked and unnatural Rebellion lately raised and carried on against 
" His Majesty in favour of a Popish Pretender, &c." — Therefore, It 
is Enacted that all Sheriffs and Stewards in Scotland and Magistrates 
of Royal Burghs shall on or before the i^t day of November next 1746 
Enquire into the number and situation of the Episcopal Meeting houses 
within their Jurisdictions and shall cause Lists to be made of the same 
&c. And it is further Enacted " That every person who is now 
" Pastor or Minister of any Episcopal Congregation in Scotland shall, 
" and he is hereby required on or before the i^t day of September 1746 
" to produce to the Clerk of the Shire &c. where his Meeting house is 
" situated a Certificate from the proper Officer of his having qualified 
"himself by taking the Oaths to His Majesty appointed by Law, of 
" which Certificate the Clerk shall forthwith make an Entry in the 
" said book appointed for keeping a List or Register of the Meeting 
" houses within that Jurisdiction, &c." 

By the next Clause, It is Enacted that all the Ministers shall pray 
for His Majesty and the Royal Family in express terms as oft as they 
officiate, and all Sheriffs and Magistrates are enjoined after the i^t of 
November to shut up all Meeting houses whereof the Pastor shall not 
have produced to their Clerks respectively the Certificate of his having 
been qualified or wherein His Majesty and the Royal Family shall not 
be prayed for in express words, and shall not again give access to the 
said house until the Proprietor or Possessor give security under the 
penalty of /"loo that the house shall not be again so employed. 

The above clauses shut up the directions made by this statute con- 
cerning Pastors who had formerly officiated in Episcopal Congregations 
within Scotland, and thereafter follow some further Regulations with 
respect to such persons as shall after the first day of September enter 
upon the Exercise of the said Function, which are introduced in these 



I 



Appendix. 533 

words — " And be it further Enacted that if any person shall from and 
" after the said i^t day of September presume to enter upon or Exercise 
"the Function of a Pastor or Minister of any Episcopal Meeting or 
" Congregation in Scotland without having first caused his Letters of 
"Orders to be entered on record or registered or without having first 
" qualified himself by taking and subscribing the Oaths in such manner 
" as all Officers Civil and Military in Scotland are by Law obliged &c." 
Then follows the penalty to which the Pastor is subjected and the 
description of an Episcopal Meeting house and an Injunction to Sheriffs 
to make enquiry of offences &c. 

After all which this Clause, " And be it Enacted that from and 
" after the said i^t day of September, No Letters of Orders of any 
" Pastor or Minister of any Episcopal Meeting or Congregation in Scot- 
" land shall be deemed sufficient or be admitted to be registered but such 
" as have been given by some Bishop of the Church of England or of 
" Ireland, and in case any Letters of orders other than such as are 
"before described shall be registered, such registration shall be deemed 
" Null and Void to all intents and purposes." 

By this Clause an alteration is made of the Qualifications required 
by the Act of Toleration with respect to the Orders, for that Act required 
only Orders from the hands of a Protestant Bishop, which certainly 
comprehended the Bishops of Scotland, tho' deprived of their Benefices 
by the Law past at the Revolution, and other Bishops by them ordained, 
And accordingly orders given by such Bishops were sustained by the 
House of Peers in the case of M^ Greenshiels. But by this last clause 
the orders are limited to those given by a Bishop of the Church of 
England or Ireland. 

This Act received the Royal assent upon the 12*^ of August 1746 
and how soon a Copy of it came to Scotland some of the Episcopal 
Clergy who were formerly in use to officiate in Meeting houses in the 
County of Aberdeen did qualify themselves by taking the Oaths before 
the ist of September and produced certificates thereof to the Sheriff 
Clerk in terms of the Statute. But as no Quarter Sessions of the peace 
had been held betwixt the time the Act was past and the i^t of Septem- 
ber, it was impossible for them to record their Letters of orders before 
that day, nor did there appear any clause in the statute enjoining it. 
But they did thereafter present their Letters of orders to be recorded at 



534 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

the Quarter Sessions held the 3^^ of March 1647 at Aberdeen. But the 
Meeting of the Justices being thin and the case thought somewhat 
dubious as to the Act of Parhament, they thought proper to delay the 
consideration of the same till the 17'^^ of March, to which they adjourned 
their Quarter Sessions. 

From the above State of the Case. 

Queritur 1^°. Whether are the Pastors who formerly officiated in 
Episcopal Meeting houses in Scotland and have duly qualified them- 
selves on or before the i^t of September 1746 entitled to the benefit of 
the Act of Toleration past in the lo^h of Queen Anne if they have 
received orders from the hands of any Protestant Bishop in terms of 
the said Act, Altho' their Letters of orders are not recorded before the 
said ist day of September 1746 ? 

Queritur 2^°. Have the Justices of peace to whom the Letters of 
orders are appointed to be presented at the Quarter Sessions any power 
to judge of these orders or to forbid them to be recorded if they should 
think them insufficient, or is the Clerk of the Meeting bound by Law to 
enter the Letters presented on record without regard to any directions 
given him by the Justices on that head ? 

Answers to the above Queries. 

To the first Querie. There appears no reason to doubt that by the 
Act of Toleration Letters of Orders given by any of the Scots Bishops 
who were deprived of their Benefices at the Revolution, or other Bishops 
by them consecrated, were sufficient to entitle Pastors so ordained to 
the privileges given by that Act, And there is nothing in the late Statute 
to deprive them of those privileges, providing they have produced to the 
Clerk of the shire a Certificate of their having taken the Oaths appointed 
by Law on or before the i^t of September 1746. This is the only new 
limitation laid by the statute upon Ministers who had formerly officiated 
in Episcopal Congregations in Scotland, And if they have complied with 
it they are entitled to the benefit of the Toleration if they have received 
orders from any Protestant Bishop in terms of the Act iQino Anne. For 
there is no Clause in the late Statute obliging such Pastors to record 



APPENDIX. 535 

their orders befor the i^t of September. And indeed it was impossible 
in the nature of things it could be done, as no Quarter Sessions were 
held in Scotland betwixt the passing of the Act and that day, And there- 
fore such limitation to an impossible condition will never be understood 
to be implied when it is not expressed in the Act. In a word, The plan 
of the Act seems plainly to be thus — That such Pastors as had been in 
possession of Episcopal Meeting houses within Scotland should be 
obliged on or before the i^t of September 1746 to instruct their being 
qualified by taking the Oaths to His Majesty. In which case they are 
entitled to the benefit of their orders in terms of the Law then standing, 
viz* Act ioi"o Anne. But no minister who remains unqualified after 
that day is allowed there after to enter upon the Exercise of his 
Function unless he can produce Letters of orders from some Bishop of 
the Church of England or Ireland. Such orders are only necessary to 
Pastors who may thereafter enter upon the Exercise of their Office. 
But there is no clause in the Statute that deprives the old Pastors of 
the benefit of their orders which were sufficient by the Law standing at 
the time if they qualify within the day therein limited. 

To the 2^ Querie we are of opinion that the Clerk to the Quarter 
Sessions ,of the peace is by Law bound to enter upon record such 
Letters of orders as are presented to the Justices of peace at their 
Meeting. The office of recording is purely Ministerial and is enjoined 
by the Law without any previous judgment, and consequently the 
Justices have no power to discharge or forbid it. But after the Re- 
gistration the sufficiency of the orders may be liable to be judged of 
according to the meaning of the Statutes made in that behalf. 

This is the opinion of 



(So Signed) 



AND. MCDOWAL. 

JAMES FERGUSON. 

HENRY HOME. 
JALEXR LOCKHART. 
ITHOS HAY. 



Edinburgh, ii^h March 1747. 



Endorsed : — In L^ Justice Clerk's Letter 
of Febry 29th, 1747/8. 



536 



THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 



{Enclosure III.) 
List of Deputy-Sheriffs of Scotland, with Their Salaries. 



Air 

Aberdeen 

Argyll and Bute 

Berwick 

Bamf . 

Caithness and Sutherland 

Cromertie and Ross 

Dumfries 

Dumbarton . 

Edinburgh 

Fife and Kinross 

Forfar . 

Haddington . 

Inverness 

Kincardine 

Kircudbright . 

Lanerk 

Linlithgow . 

Nairn and Murray 

Orkney . 

Peebles . 

Perth . 

Renfrew 

Ross and Cromertie 

Roxburgh 

Selkirk . 

Stirling and Clackmannan 

Wigton or Galloway 



200 William Duff. 

200 David Dalrymple. 

250 Archibald Campbel. 

150 Geo. Carre. 

150 Rob<^ Pringle. 

200 James Brodie 2. 

250 Hugh Rose. 

200 W"" Kirkpatrick. 

150 John Campbel of Succoth. 

200 Charles Maitland. 

200 James Leslie. 

150 George Brown. 

150 James Hamilton. 

250 Thomas Miller, 

150 Francis Garden. 

150 David Scrymzour. 

200 William Cross. 

150 John Gillon. 

150 John Grant. 

200 Sr Andw Mitchell. 

150 James Veitch or James 

Montgomery. 

250 Charles Campbell. 

150 Chas McDonald. 

250 Hugh Rose. 

150 Gilbert Elliot. 

150 James Erskine y^^. 
150 

150 Alex^ Boswell.^ 



^ There are some pencil marks against the above names, which are partly rubbed out 
and quite unreadable. 



APPENDIX. 537 

(Enclosure III.) 

List of those Recommended to be Deputy-Sheriffs and 
Memoranda relative thereto. 

For the Countys of 

Aberdeen. Sir Archibald Grant of Monimusk, Barronet, Brother 
to the Lord Advocate ; Recommended as a known and zealous Whig 
by the Gentlemen of that County who distinguished themselves most 
for His Majesty's Service during the late Rebellion, Such as M^ George 
Midleton of Seton, M"" Duff of Premnay and others ; and Sir Archibald 
has sufficient knowledge in the Law for discharging the Office of Sheriff 
Depute. 

M"" Urquhart of Meldrum is also Recommended by some Gentle- 
men of that County to be Deputy Sheriff. I know no other objection 
against him but that he always attended the Nonjurant Episcopal 
Meeting houses, and therefore was not reputed a Whig. 

Air. Mr William Duff, Recommended by The Earl of Loudon, 
Principal Sheriff. M^ Duff is a Whig, and has sufficient knowledge in 
the Law for being Deputy Sheriff, and as I understand will be agreeable 
to the Gentlemen of that County. 

Bamff. Mj Francis Gairden, a zealous Whig, and other ways well 
qualified for the Office ; Recommended by Lord Advocate, who tells me 
that he is agreeable to The Earl of Findlater, and is to be Recommended 
by His Lordship, who has a very great Estate in that County, and is 
Sheriff Principal for Life ; and I believe M"" Gairden will be agreeable 
to the Whig interest in that County. 

Berwick. Mj Henry Home, Recommended by the Earl of Home 
the principal Sheriff; M^ Home is a Whig, and a Lawier of great know- 
ledge and experience in the Law. 

Caithness. I am well informed that M"" Hercules Lindsay is Recom- 
mended by M"^ Sinclair of Ulbster the Heritable Sheriff and the other 
friends of the Government there ; As he has been a Private Teacher of 
the Law for sometime at Glasgow, he is certainly very capable for that 
office. His Character otherways is to me unknown. 

Clackmannan. M^ David Dalrymple, son to Lord Drummore, one of 
the Lords of Session and Justiceary. M^ Dalrymple is Recommended 

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538 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 



by Lord Cathcart and Sir John Shaw, who have a considerable Estate 
in that County, and by the Earl of Glencairn and Lord Belhaven, to be 
employed as a Sheriff Depute in that or some other County. M^ 
Dalrymple is of a Whig Family, and has sufficient knowledge of the 
Law for the Office of a Deputy Sheriff. 

Mr Robert Bruce of Kennet, Recommended to be Deputy Sheriff of 
Clackmannan by Lord Erskine, member of Parliament for that County, 
and by M^ Abercromby of Tullibody, who has a considerable Estate in 
that County; and I am also informed that he has been recommended 
by the Earl of Dumfries the present Heretable Sheriff. Mr Bruce is a 
Whig, and other ways qualifyed for this office. 

Dumbarton. M^ John Campbell of Succoth, Recommended by the 
members of Parliament both for the County and Burrows, and by the 
Generality of the Free holders in the Interest of the Government. He 
is a zealous Whig, and other ways well qualifyed for the office of Sheriff 
Depute. 

Dumfries. M' James Ferguson of Craigdarroch, a Whig, and other 
ways well qualifyed for the Office, and Recommended by the Duke of 
Queensberry the now Heretable Sheriff. 

Edinburgh. My James Areskine, son to Lord Tinwald, one of the 
Lords of Session and Justiciary. M^ Areskine is a very zealous Whig, 
and other ways perfectly well qualifyed for that office. 

Elgin or Murray. M"" John Grant, son to Lord Elchies, one of the 
Lords of Session and Justiciary. M^ Grant is a very zealous Whig, and 
other ways perfectly well qualifyed for that Office, and is Recommended 
by the Member of Parliament for that County, and will be acceptable to 
the Gentlemen in the Whig Interest there. 

Galloway or Wigton. M^ Peter M^dowall, Recommended by Lord 
Stair and a good many Gentlemen of that County. He is a very young 
man, and I know very little about him. 

Mr Thomas Miller, Recommended by The Earl of Galloway and 
the Members of Parliament for the County and the Burrows. M' 
Miller is a zealous Whig, a young Man of great practice at the Bar, 
and of great Expectation, and on that account has Recommendations 
for being Sheriff Depute also in other Countys. 

Kirkcudbright. Mj Thomas Miller, Recommended by the Duke of 
Queensberry and the Earl of Selkirk. The same person who is Recom- 



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APPENDIX. 539 

mended by the Earl of Galloway and others for the County of Galloway, 
and who, as already observed, is in every respect well qualifyed for the 
Office of Deputy Sheriff any where. 

Mr William Kirkpatrick, a zealous Whig, and other ways well 
qualifyed for the Office, Recommended by the Gentlemen in that 
County, who have at all times joined in promoting the Kings Measures. 

Peebles. M^ James Veitch, Recommended by the Earl of March. 
He is very capable for the Office. 

Perth. M' Charles Campbell, son to Lord Monzie, one of the Lords 
of Session. He is Recommended by Lord Glenorchy and other Gentle- 
men well affected in that County, and is himself a zealous Whig. 

Renfrew. M^ William Cross, a zealous Whig, and other ways well 
qualifyed. He is recommended by the Town of Glasgow to be employed 
as a Sheriff Depute, and this County lies in the Neighbourhood of 
Glasgow. 

Mr William Wallace, a Whig, and other ways qualifyed for the 
Office of a Deputy Sheriffi The Earl of Eglinton I understand is to 
recommend him or 

Mr Charles M^dowall, with whose character and qualifications I am 
not so well acquainted. 

Roxburgh or Tiviotdale. M^ Gilbert Elliot, son to Lord Minto, one 
of the Lords of Session and Justiciary. M' Elliot is a very zealous 
Whig, and in all other respects perfectly well qualifyed for that office. 
He has a great Estate, and will be acceptable to the Gentlemen in that 
County. 

Selkirk. Mr Andrew Pringle, son to Lord Haining, one of the 
Lords of Session. He has sufficient knowledge and practice in the Law 
to qualify him for that Office. 

Stirling. Mr James Callender of Craigforth, recommended by Sir 
James Campbell of Ardkinglass, the old Whig Member of Parliament. 
Mr Callender is a zealous Whig, and was a Captain of the Volunteers 
who were assisting to General Blackney at Stirling. 

Sutherland. M^ John Poison, recommended by the Earl of Suther- 
land, the present Heretable Sheriff. M' Poison is reputed to be a Whig. 

As to the Countys of Fife, whereof M^ James Leslie is now Deputy 
Sheriff; Haddington, whereof M^ James Hamilton is Deputy Sheriff; 
Lanerk, whereof M^ George Sinclair is Deputy Sheriff; Argyllshire, 



540 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

whereof M^ Archibald Campbell is Deputy Sheriff; and Linlithgow, 
whereof M^ John Gillon is Deputy Sheriff; Your Grace by your Letter 
of the 30th October last was pleased to signify to me His Majesty's in- 
tentions, that where the Deputy Sheriffs now in office have exerted 
themselves in His Majesty's service and in suppressing Jacobitism, they 
shall be continued and encouraged ; and as I have in obedience to your 
Grace's Commands already given an account of the Gentlemen's Char- 
acters, qualifications and Services during the late Rebellion, whereof a 
copy is hereto annexed, I imagine they are comprehended in His 
Majesty's Gracious Intentions, And therefore it seems unnecessary to 
swell this paper with saying any more of them. 

Your Grace has no doubt observed by my Letter of the lo^h of 
December, whereof a Copy is annexed, how much it is my humble 
opinion that it is of importance to the Government that a right man be 
found for the Office of Sheriff Depute of Inverness, and at the same 
time it cannot be expected that such a man will accept of it without 
liberal appointments much higher than will be necessary for any other 
County. A young man of Spirit and who has tolerable practice at the 
Bar (and none other can be fit for that office) will not for any Salary 
that he can expect give up his practice in the supreme Courts, besides 
that his continuing his practice at the Bar will more and more qualify 
him for that Office, and therefore must of necessity return to Edinburgh 
every Summer and Winter Session, and in his absence must employ 
Substitutes one or more whom he must fee, because the former per- 
quisites of the Office by Fines and Sentence Money are taken from 
them. The Sheriff Depute must reside in the County Four Months 
every year, and in the County of Inverness he will probably find it 
necessary at proper times to make Circuits to Fort Augustus, The Isle 
of Sky and other places where there can be accommodation for a Court, 
tho' even that cannot be done till some provision be made for defraying 
the Expence of Clerks, Procurators fiscal and other Members of Court, 
besides the Sheriff. Now it cannot be expected that a young man of 
Spirit will undertake so much drudgery without appointments some- 
what larger than will defray his Expence. 

General Bland and I have been considering who will be a proper 
person for this Office, and we have agreed in opinion that the most 
proper person that occurs to us is M^ John Grant, recommended as 



APPfeNDtX. 54 1 

above to be Sheriff Depute for the County of Elgin, and who is known 
to M"" Bland, and our reasons are not only founded upon his own 
qualifications for discharging such an important trust, but also because 
in laying down the way and method of his proceeding as well as upon 
every occurrence and emergencie in extending the Authority of the Law 
over so great a part of the Wild Highlands as is comprehended in that 
County, he would have the directions, advice and support of his father 
Lord Elchies, one of the Lords of Session and Justiciary, whose zeal 
for His Majesty's Service and great Abilitys in the Law are well known 
and acknowledged by every body. 

It is true, I have reason to think that his friends would rather wish 
that he were Sheriff Depute of the Shire of Elgin, because he could 
then reside at his father's house, which is within the County and within 
a few miles of the County Town. However I doubt not that if proper 
encouragement shall be given that he may be prevailed with to accept 
of Inverness. 

Mr Hugh Rose of Geddes has, as I'm told, been lately appointed 
Sheriff Depute by The Earl of Moray. M"" Rose's father is a Zealous 
Whig, and I suppose the son is a Whig also. As to his other qualifica- 
tions I am much a Stranger ; for after he was admitted Advocate, he 
soon retired to the Country now near Twenty years ago, so cannot have 
much knowledge as he has had no experience in the Law. 

As there are several Countys where none has been recommended to 
be Deputy Sheriffs so far as I know, I have taken the liberty to subjoin 
a List of some Young Lawiers in my humble opinion every way fit to be 
employed in any of these Countys if they would accept of the office, 
which I am perswaded most of them would upon proper encouragement, 
Vizt 

M"" Alexander Boswell. 

Mr George Brown. 

Mr David Scrymgeor. 

M"^ Robert Pringle. 

Mr John Swinton. 

Mr Livingstone. 

Mr James Balfour. 

I have not mentioned any of the first rate Lawiers, because I am 
perswaded they would not submit to the trouble that must attend the 



542 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

office of Sheriff Depute, except M^ Henry Home, who I have reason to 
believe would accept of being Sheriff Depute of the County of Berwick 
where he resides, and to which he is recommended as above by The 
Earl of Home. 

{Enclosure IV.) 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle. 

Copy. 

ID* Dec^ 1747. 

The Scheme for Civilizing the Highlands I had the honour to send 
your Grace the 4^^ instant, will I hope serve for an apology for not 
sooner obeying His Majesty's Commands transmitted to me by your 
Grace, That I should send your Grace a List of such Advocates as are 
now employed as Deputy Sheriffs, with a particular account of their 
respective Characters, qualifications and services. The framing of that 
scheme ingrossed my thoughts so much, that till that was accomplished, 
I could not give the necessary attention to the other. And now I have 
the honour to send the List inclosed to your Grace. 

Your Grace's orders do not Authorize my suggesting any other 
Deputy Sheriffs than those now in office, And therefore I mention none 
other in the enclosed List. However I hope your Grace will pardon 
my taking this opportunity of performing my promise to Sir Everard 
Fawkener by recommending M^ Walter Pringle, brother to Sir Robert 
Pringle of Stitchel, to be Deputy Sheriff of the County of Roxburgh 
commonly called Tiviotdale, or for the County of Berwickshire com- 
monly called the Merse. I believe either of them would be acceptable, 
because his brother has an Estate in both Countys, and I can with 
truth vouch for the whole family that they are well affected to His 
Majesty's Person and Government. 

I'm afraid I should have been tempted to exceed my orders yet 
further by suggesting a proper person to be Sheriff Depute of the 
County of Inverness, had I known one in all that County fit for that 
office. That County requires the most particular attention, because of 
all the Countys in Scotland it is of the most importance to His Majesty 
to find a person sufficiently qualifyed, both for his personal abilities and 
his firm attachment to the present happy Establishment, to supply that 



APPENDIX. 543 

office in that County. Your Grace very well knows that it is of a great 
extent both on the Main land and the Isles, that it was the mother of 
the last Rebellion, and has been the Nursery of all the Rebellions that 
have been since the Revolution, and the County to which the Law has 
hitherto got the least access, and therefore how soon that wild part of 
the Country can be made accessible, and stations with accommodation 
for holding Courts settled, it will be necessary for the Sheriffs to make 
Circuits, as His Majesty pursuant to the late Act of Parliament shall be 
pleased to direct. That will require a person of Integrity and dilligence, 
as well as zeal for His Majesty's person and Government, and as there 
is none qualifyed within the County, one can hardly be expected from 
another Country to accept of it without a large allowance, which will be 
very well bestowed if he do his duty. 

I have also in obedience to His Majesty's Commands begun to make 
my observations upon the persons now in the several commissions of 
peace, But as that is a work of so great an extent, I cannot hope to be 
able to finish it in such manner as I can lay it before your Grace for 
some weeks. 



The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Edenburgh, 17* March I74|-. 
My Lord Duke, 

As your Grace has been pleased to desire me to Suggest from 
time to time what might occur to me for his Majestys Service, I beg 
leave to observe, now that the Deputy Sheriffs must be bred to the Law, 
it seems reasonable that they have Power to try all Sorts of Crimes 
Qxcept High Treason. The reason I mention this is, that though by the 
Law of Scotland those who were possessed of the High Jurisdictions of 
Justiciary or Regality, now abolished, could try all Crimes except 
Treason, yet the sheriffs could not try the four pleas that are called the 
Pleas of the Crown, viz. Murder, Robbery, Fire raiseing, and Ravishing 
of Women ; and tho' by several Statutes they might try Murder, and 

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544 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

sometimes have done it, yet they never tryed the other three Crimes ; 
and the advantages proposed by giveing them this Power is, that Tryalls 
can be carried on in the Sherriffs court at a much Smaller expence than 
before the Court of Justiciary. 2<i^y Without such Power, as such Felons 
can be tryed only in the High Court of Justiciary, or circuit Courts, the 
consequence is that Felons in remote Countys must either be brought 
to Edenburgh and tryed there, or must remain in Goal till the nixt 
Circuite ; which may be at the distance of Six Months, or even more, if 
the Crime happens so near the nixt Circuite that there is not sufficient 
time for a Presentment ; and if the Felon claim the Benefite of the 
Scots Habeas corpus Act, he may force his Liberation or his Majestys 
Advocate to cary him to Edenburgh. 3^10 This observation has still a 
greater Force in the Islands, particularly of Orkney and Zetland, because 
of the difficult access to these Islands, except in the Summer time ; And 
the danger of giveing these Deputy Sheriffs that power cannot be great. 
Their Judgements are subject to the Review of the Justiciary Court, 
and cannot be carried in to Execution by North Forth till after fourty 
days, which is thought sufficient time for complaining to the Court of 
Justiciary, if any wrong is done ; or 20 days more might be given as to 
Judgements in these remote Islands inferring Death or Demembration. 
There is also another thing wanted to render the Scheme usefull ; 
there is an officer in the Sheriffs Court called Procurator Fiscal, whose 
office is of the Same nature in that Court as that of his Majestys Advo- 
cate in the Court of Justiciary, and all Criminal Tryalls, whither by 
Jury or by Summary Complaint, must be either at his instance or suite, 
or with his Concourse, where there is a private party who prosecuted. 
This officer is named by the sheriff, and has no Sallary, only Private 
parties pay him a trifleing fee for his concourse, and the sheriffs com- 
monly give him, as well as the Sheriff Clerk, some part of the Fines 
(which by the Forms of these Courts are all made payable to him). 
Now these Fines are taken from them, and to be counted for in Ex- 
chequer ; and yet in those crimes where there is no private prosecutor, 
which is often the Case, where the most atrocious fellonies are com- 
mitted. This officer is the person who must manage the whole Tryall, 
in the same way as his Majestys advocate does tryalls at the suite of 
the Crown in the Court of Justiciary ; And it cannot be expected that 
any Man will undertake an office attended with so much trouble when 



APPENDIX. 545 

he is to have no Reward. It deserves also to be considered, that the 
Sheriif Clerks have no Sallarys, but only Fees from the Suitors, which 
is now regulated so as the Subjects can have no cause for complaining 
that they are exorbitant, and now there is no fund for paying them any 
fees for Tryalls at the suite of the procurator Fiscal. The Remedy that 
seems least burthensome to the Crown, and most suited to the nature 
of the Service, is that these procurators Fiscals and Clerks should 
each of them be allowed small Sallarys in place of all Fees for such 
Tryalls, and to be paid them out of the Fines of Court and Equies, 
Suppose ten pounds were allowed to each of them, but to be paid only 
out of these Funds. And as there are other charges that must alwa3'es 
attend such Tryalls, as the Expenses of Summoning Witnesses and 
Juries or others of that kind, which it cannot be expected that the 
Procurators-Fiscal will advance out of their own Pockets without hopes 
of being repaid, perhaps it woud be reasonable to allow both the Sallarys 
and these Charges to be stated in an account, and to be allowed by the 
Barons of Exchequer out of the Fines and Equies, when they are compted 
for by the Deputy Sherriffs. 

There is one thing that requires to be remedyed ; many Deputy 
Sheriff have during and since the Rebellion been at considerable charges 
in the Governments Service, partly by orders from H.R.H. the Duke, and 
partly by orders transmitted to me by your Grace, particularly in shutting 
up all the Nonjuring Meeting Houses, and prosecuteing the Ministers 
as the severall Statutes direct. The Deputy Sheriffs have often applyed 
to me to be repaid those Charges, and as I knew the Court of Exchequer 
are allways in use at fitting the Sheriffs annual accounts of their Equies 
to give them allowance of such charges as the Sheriffs expend in Execute- 
ing any of the orders of that Court, and to me it apeared equally 
reasonable that they should also allow such Charges as by proper 
authority had been expended by the Sheriffs in other Matters for the 
Service of the Government, therefore I took the Liberty to advise the 
Deputy Sheriffs to apply to the Court of Exchequer to have these 
accounts examined and allowed by the Barons at fitting their Equies, 
but the Barons of Exchequer did not think themselves impowered to 
take any notice of these accounts unless they had orders for that effect 
from the Lords of the Treasury. I have very good reason to believe 
that that very consideration, the delay and uncertainty how or when 

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546 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

these Sheriffs could recover their Charges, has been in a great measure 
the Cause of the inactivity of many of them in the Governments Service, 
which I was so sensible of, that in Sundry Cases, to prevent the bad 
consequences that might arise, I thought it my Duty to engage my own 
Credite and to undertake to see their accounts paid, particularly in 
Execution of the late Act for discovering and prosecuteing the nonjuring 
Episcopal Ministers ; one instance of this occurs now in the Shire of 
Kincairden, in the proceedings that have by orders of the Earl of 
Kintore, the High Sheriff, been carried on before his Deputy for sup- 
pressing Nonjuring meeting Houses and convicting the pastors, the 
result of which has been that three of these ministers have been 
convicted and comitted to prison for six months as the Law directs, as 
appears by a certificate by M' Younge the Deputy Sheriff, of w^^ 
I have enclosed a Cop}^ ; a bill of Suspension was on the i6th 
presented to the Court of Justiciary, complaining against that Judgement 
both on account of the Matter, and on account of Some of the Deputy 
sheriffs proceedings in the Course of the Tryall. The Court could give 
no opinion touching the matters complained of till the case is fully laid 
before them, and therefore ordered his Majestys Sollicitors to inform 
themselves and to put in Answers. But there was at the same time a 
petition presented in name of the three Prisoners, complaining of the 
Goal in which they are comitted, that it is in many respects (needless 
to be here mentioned) unfit for the confinement of prisoners, and that 
as one of the Prisoners is 70 years of Age, a few days confinement in it 
at this season might kill him, as it would also endanger the health of 
the other two ; and yet that is the County Prison. There was such 
probable Evidence of this given to the Court, that they thought there 
might be some danger in delaying till the state of that Goal could be 
properly certifyed to them, and as it seemed quite immaterial to the 
Government in what prison they are confined, therfore the Court ordered 
them to be transported to Aberdeen and confined to the Goal of that 
Town. 

I have the Honour to be with the Utmost Respect, 

My Lord Duke 
Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant 

AND. FLETCHER. 

Endorsed : — Rd. 22^ by express. 



APPENDIX. 547 

(Enclosure.) 

Declaration of the Deputy-Sheriff of Kincardineshire. 

I John Young of Stank Esq^, Shirriff depute of the County of 
Kincardine, Do hereby Certify and Declare That In obedience to the Act 
of the nineteenth year of His present Majesty For more effectually 
prohibiting and preventing Pastors or Ministers from officiating in Epis- 
copal Meeting houses in Scotland without duly qualifying themselves 
according to Law, and for punishing persons for resorting to any Meet- 
ing-houses where such unqualifyed Pastors or Ministers shall officiat, 
I did in the Month of October One thousand Seven hundred and fourty 
six years make enquiry as to the number and situation of the Episcopal 
Meeting houses within the said County, and caused Summond before 
me four persons for every Episcopal Meetinghouse that I understood 
was in the County in the time of the late Rebellion, which persons as 
I was informed were of the ordinary Hearers who frequented said meet- 
ing houses, And they having appeared before me upon the Thirty first 
day of the said month of October 1746 I interrogate them and each of 
them seperatly upon oath Whether or not they knew if there was any 
Episcopal Meeting-house or Meeting, Assembly or Congregation within 
the said County where five or more persons did Assemble or meet 
together to hear Divine Service over and besides those of the House- 
hold in any house where a Family was Inhabiting, or if there was any 
house or place within the said County not Inhabited by a Family where 
any such five or more persons did Assemble and meet together to hear 
Divine Service, and where Divine Service was performed by a Pastor or 
Minister being of or professing to be of the Episcopal Communion since 
the first day of September 1746, To which they all Deposed in the 
Negative, And in obedience to the above recited Act and His Majesty's 
Commands contained in a Letter from one of His Majestys Principall 
Secretarys of State directed to the Right Hon^ie Xhe Earl of Kintore 
High Shirriff of this County and His Lordships orders thereanent to me 
his Deputy, I did again make enquiry as to the number and situation of 
the Episcopal Meeting houses within the said County, and caused 
Summond four persons for every Episcopal Meetinghouse that I was 
informed were in the County, they being suspected to be ordinary 



548 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

Hearers in and frequented the said Meeting houses, And they having 
appeared before me upon the Tenth day of December last And they 
and each of them having been seperatly Interrogate upon Oath upon 
the points above mentioned and in terms of the foresaid Act, They and 
each of them also Deposed in the Negative. And I likeways made 
Enquiry and caused search to be made at different times for persons 
attainted of High Treason that might have returned to this County and 
for other Notorious Rebels that were concerned in the late Rebellion 
and are either Excepted by name or under some general description in 
the late Act of Indemnity, and that might happen to be lurking within 
the bounds of this County, But could apprehend none, neither could 
I find there were any Indications of a Design to give any disturbance to 
the Government, Thereafter having got Information that M'' Alexander 
Greig, Episcopal Preacher at Stonhaven, M^ John Petrie Episcopal 
Preacher at Drumleithie, and M^ John Troup, Episcopal Preacher at 
Muchals, had Contraveened the Act of Parliament above mentioned, 
I therefore caused Criminal processes to be raised at the instance of the 
Procurator fiscal of this County against them. In which processes 
I found it proven that the said M^ Alexander Greig, M^ John Petrie 
and Mr John Troup were Ministers of or professing to be of the 
Episcopal Communion, And that they and each of them did in the 
Months of December 1747 and January 1747/8 years Presume to Exerce 
the Function of Ministers of that Communion by performing Divine 
Service to Meetings, Assemblys or Congregations in Stonehaven, Drum- 
leithie and Muchales where there were five or more persons assembled 
or met together to hear Divine Service over and above those of the 
Household, And that they nor neither of them did not pray for the 
Kings most Excellent Majesty his heirs or Successors in terms of the 
said late Act of parliament of the nineteenth year of His present Majesty, 
and that they and each of them had otherways contraveened the said 
Act, Therefore I ordained the Mairs and officers of the said County to 
apprehend and deliver the persons of the said M^ Alexander Greig, M^ 
John Petrie and M^^ John Troup to the Goaler of the Tolbooth of Stone- 
haven, and required and ordained the said Goaler to Imprison and 
detain the persons of the said M^ Alexander Greig, M^ John Petrie and 
M"" John Ti'oup within the said Tolbooth for the space of six months 
after this date and no longer. And I repelled the bail Defences pled for 



APPENDIX. 549 

the Defenders and Objections made by them against the witnesses, 
which Sentence was forthwith Execute by Incarcerating the said M' 
Alex^ Greig, M^ John Petrie and M' John Troup within the said Tol- 
booth or County Goal. Given under my hand, At Stonehaven the 5th 
day of March 1747/8 years. 

(Sign'd) JO. YOUNG. 

Endorsed : — In Lord Justice Clerk's 
of March 17, 1747/8. 



LI. 

The Duke of Newcastle to the Lord Justice-Clerk.^ 

May 12, 1748. 
Justice Clerk, 

My Lord, 

His Majesty having been informed that your LP from your 
zeal for the King's service, and from your desire to do every thing that 
might accomodate His Majesty's Affairs, was willing to resign your 
office of Lord Justice Clerk on conditions of His Majesty granting you 
the Office of Keeper of the Signet of Scotland for Life, and the Reversion 
of Auditor of the Exchequer of Scotland to your eldest son, M' Fletcher ; 
His Majesty has been pleased to approve of your Resignation upon 
these Conditions, and as soon as your LoP shall have made it in Form, 
The King has declared his intention to appoint M^ Dundas of Arniston 
to be L^ President of the Sessions, M^ Areskine of Tinwald to succeed 
your LoP as Lord Justice Clerk, and to give your LoP the Office of 
Keeper of the Signet during Life with the Reversion of the Auditor of 
the Exchequer to your son. 

I beg leave to congratulate your LoP upon this mark of His 
Majesty's Approbation of your conduct and service, to desire the con- 
tinuance of your correspondence, and to assure you of the truth and 
esteem with which I am 

&C.2 
* S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 40. No. 23. -This letter is a draft only. 



^$6 THE ALBEMARLE PAPERS. 

LII. 

The Lord Justice-Clerk to the Duke of Newcastle.^ 

Jedburgh, 17th May 1748. 

My Lord Duke, 

I have the honour of your Grace's letter of the 12* current 
(which I received on my Circuit at this place, by way of Edinburgh) 
acquainting me, that as I was willing in order to accommodate his 
Majestys affairs to resign my office of Justice Clerk on condition of his 
Majestys granting to me the office of Keeper of the Signet for Life, and 
to my eldest son the Reversion of the Auditor of Exchequer of Scotland, 
His Majesty has been gratiously pleased to approve of my Resignation 
upon these conditions, and that as soon as I shall have made it in Form 
that the King has declared his Intention to appoint M'" Dundas of 
Arniston to be President of the Session, and M"" Areskine of Tinwald to 
succeed me as his Majesty's Justice Clerk for Scotland, and to give me 
the office of Keeper of the Signet during Life, with the Reversion of 
Auditor of the Exchequer of Scotland to my son. 

I have accordingly the honour to transmit enclosed to your Grace 
my Dismission and Resignation in Form of the office of his Majesty's 
Clerk for Scotland. 

I am highly sensible of this repeated Instance of his Majesty's 
approbation of my Conduct and Services, and how much I am indebted 
to your Grace on this occasion, and shall in obedience to your Grace's 
desire continue to receive and obey your Grace's commands and suggest 
whatever occurs to me for his Majesty's Service as formerly. 

I have the honour to be with the utmost respect 

My Lord Duke, 

Your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant, 

AND. FLETCHER. 
Duke of Newcastle. 

^ S. p. Scotland, Geo. II. Bundle 40. No. 30. 



INDEX. 



Names of places not identified are indicated by [?]. 



Abbotshaugh, letter from, 451. 
Abercromby of Tullibody, 538. 
Aberdeen, 21, 35, 36, 68, 79, 97, 104, 109, 

122, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 
181, 202, 218, 267, 270, 325, 329, 
398, 400, 402, 414, 448, 546 ; 
letters from, 2, 27, 30, 31, 41, 56, 
59, 60, 61, 78, 105, 116, 122, 123, 
133, 185, 193, 197; riot at, 28, 30, 
31, 41, 42, 56, 89, 105, 108, 116, 

123, 133, 185, 193, 197, 210, 401, 
407 ; imprisonment of merchants 
of, 76-78, 89, 109, 121, 195. 

Aberdeenshire, 493, 519, 529. 
Aberdon, James, 165. 
Aberfeldy, 167. 
Abertarff, 406.- 
Achadrom [?], 406. 
Achatrichatan, 225, 327. 
Achilty, 51. 
Achinaer [?], 178. 
Achindarach, 333. 
Achnacarie, 228, 229, 266, 327. 
Ackland, Lieutenant, 29, 275. 
Adair, Captain, 168, 226. 

— Mr., 187. 
Adams, Lieutenant, 275. 
Addison, Rev. — , 429. 

Agnew, Sir Andrew, 11, 199, 258, 

— Lieutenant, 168. 
Ahunner [?], 185. 
Aikenhead, John, 318. 
Aikersideallach, 75. 

Airds, letters from, 469, 525. 

Albemarle, William Anne, Earl of, 412, 417, 
424, 430, 432, 433, 436, 494, 501, 
504 ; congratulates the Duke of 
Newcastle, i ; is confident of vic- 
tory before Culloden, 2 ; describes 
Cumberland's movements, 3 ; or- 
dered to attend the Hessian troops, 
4 ; reluctant to accept the command 
in Scotland, 5, 6, 7, 9; desires a 
comprehensive commission and is 



resolved to capture Prince Charles, 
10, 12 ; desires to go into winter 
quarters, 15; is going into winter 
quarters, 69, 97 ; Master of Lovat 
anxious to surrender to, 90 ; house 
at Edinburgh prepared for, 95 ; 
believes that Prince Charles has 
left Scotland, 97 ; instructions to, 
on being appointed Commander- 
in-Chief in Scotland, 137 ; leaves 
Fort Augustus, 154 ; receives his 
commission, 208 ; is resolved to 
capture Prince Charles, 209 ; and 
to conciliate the civil authorities, 
210; desires tents, etc., to be sent, 
211; requests instructions regard- 
ing Glengarry, 212 ; orders the 
reduction of the Highland Com- 
panies, 213 ; is opposed to con- 
tinuing the Argyllshire militia, 
215 ; reports Prince Charles's 
rumoured escape, 220, 227 ; fears 
the Rebellion is not yet at an end, 
235 ; announces Prince Charles's 
escape, 242, 262-63, 267, 269, 278, 
294 ; is thankful for a supply of 
cash, 284 ; is anxious to leave 
Scotland, 285 ; will endeavour to 
reconcile the civil and military 
authorities, 286 ; urges scheme for 
pacification of the Highlands, 289 ; 
recommends Flora Macdonald for 
lenient treatment, 297 ; reports the 
number of prisoners in Scotland, 
301 ; advocates the employment 
of spies, 302 ; regarding Jacobite 
prisoners, 315 ; and recruiting for 
the Scots Brigade in Holland, 317, 
321, 325; hopes to catch Cluny 
Macpherson, 326 ; appointed to 
serve under Cumberland in Flan- 
ders, 328 ; desires his successor in 
Scotland to be appointed, 330; 
again begs to be relieved, 348 ; 



552 



INDEX. 



reports an attempt to celebrate 
Prince Charles's birthday at Edin- 
burgh, ib. ; again desires to be 
relieved, 354 ; appointed to serve 
with Cumberland in Flanders, ib. ; 
expresses his satisfaction thereon, 
357 ; and his views upon the con- 
dition of Scotland, ib. ; departure 
of, 377. 381, 384, 437. 438; letters, 
of, I, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, II, 14, 68, 
97, 154, 208, 213, 214, 220, 222, 
227, 234, 235, 242, 262, 267, 269, 
278, 284, 286, 294, 298, 299, 301, 
315, 321, 325, 326, 328, 329, 341, 
343. 344, 347, 348, 352, 353, 354, 
356, 363, 366, 368, 374, 377, 381, 
382, 385, 407 ; letters to, 12, 16, 
17, ig, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 
30, 31, 32, 33, 37, 39, 40, 43, 44, 
45, 47, 48, 50, 54, 55, 5^, 57, 58, 

59, 60, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 79, 81, 
84, 85, 86, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 99, 
100, loi, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 
108, no, III, 112, 113, 116, 118, 
119, 120, 122, 125, 126, 128, 130, 

131, 133, 135, 136, 139, 141, 144, 
149, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159, 162, 
163, 165, 166, 167, 168, i6g, 173, 
174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 
181, 185, 188, 189, 190, 193, 195, 
197, 198, 199, 200, 219, 221, 231, 
240, 243, 265, 267, 268, 312, 318, 
345, 350, 355, 359, 360, 364, 365, 
375- 

Allcock, Lieutenant, 226. 

Alloa, 119, i8i. 

Alness, 50. 

Alston, Mr., 459. 

Ancram, William Henry, Earl of, 11, 21, 
28, 77, 78, 79, 89, 99, 121, 124, 
142, 149, 194, 414; letters of, 30, 

60, 61, 103, 108 ; letter to, 78. 
Anderson, John, 379. 

— Captain, 205, 276, 405, 407. 
Annan, 413. 

Appin, 16, 26, 58, 291, 300, 332, 368, 372, 

373, 375, 384, 440, 444- 
Applecross, 51, 408, 409. 
Arabine, Lieut.-Colonel, 168, 174, 183. 
Arbroath, 202, 316, 320, 397, 400, 413 ; letter 

from, 108. 
Arbuthnott, John, Viscount, letter of, 79. 

— Sir John, 318. 
Ardtornish, 332. 

Argyll, Archibald, Duke of, 383, 460, 

469. 
Argyllshire, 215, 221, 222, 288, 315, 328. 
Ardgour, 291, 292. 
Ardshiel, 58, 333 ; letter from, 25, 



Arisaig, 51, 58, 239, 243, 264, 268, 293, 299, 

334, 371, 372, 446- 
Armand, Rev. — , 206. 
Arminger, Captain, 4. 
Armstrong, Captain George, 173 ; letter of, 

187. 
— Lieutenant William, 205, 275 ; letter 

of, 143- 
Army : — 

ammunition, 94, 196, 212, 296. 
barracks, 22, 44, 54, 62, 93, 96, 180, 

220. 
beds and bedding, 220, 234, 262, 289, 

297. 
camp necessaries, 297. 
clothing of, 15, 120, 139, 211. 
commissariat, 44, 47, 67, 102, 103, 115, 

124, 135, 233. 
complaints regarding the conduct of, 

12, 13, 31, 41, 42, 48, 56, 76-78, 79, 

82, 88, loi, 103, 108, 116, 121, 133, 

138, 193, 197, 210, 285, 402, 403, 

407, 412. 
courts martial, 106, 112, 115, 166, 168, 

173, 174, 176, 183, 189, 192, 199, 

211, 227, 287, 321, 330. 
deserters, 43, 91, 115, 150, 177, 183, 

192, 381, 501. 
disposition of, 201, 448. 
drafts for Flanders, 13, 33, 48, 377, 390. 
firing, in, 135, 152, 153, 155. 
forage, 59, 61, 62, 67, 84, 151, 159, 177, 

179, 186, 189. 
garrisons, 18, 19, 21, 35, 162. 
gratuity to, 35. 
horses, 104. 

medical attendance, 128, 297. 
officers absent, 205, 206, 207, 275-77. 
recruiting, 22, 59, 66, 176, 186, 188, 

205, 206, 207. 
shoes for, 96, 107, 113, 114, 129, 132. 
sick, III, 179, 297. 
strength of, 204, 226, 274. 
tents, 15, 139, 211. 
winter quarters, 43, 93, 122, 201. 
Regiments : — - 

Argyllshire militia, 11, 57, 92, 137, 140, 

156, 215, 221, 222, 231, 337. 
Barren's, 119, 131, 150, 182, 183, 192, 

202, 204, 205, 274, 276. 
Batereau's, 67, 152, 202, 204, 206, 274, 

275- 
Blakeney's, 67, 130, 152, 200, 202, 204, 

205, 274, 275, 448, 476, 520. 
Campbell's Scots Fusiliers, 150, 180, 

192, 199, 202, 203, 204, 205, 227, 

274, 276, 377, 381. 
Cobham's dragoons, 13, 6i, 79, 103, 

189, 201, 226, 



INDEX. 



553 



Cochrane's marines, 107. 

Conway's, 120, 150, 196, 202, 204, 205, 

274, 275, 377. 
Dejean's, 122, 165, 166, 188, 202, 204, 

206, 218, 274, 276, 377. 
Fleming's, 20, 28, 31, 59, 68, 82, 104, 

108, 117, 122, 124, 185, 202, 204, 

205, 274, 275, 377. 
Guise's, 16. 

Hamilton's dragoons, 61, 100, 107, 118, 

150, 201, 226. 
Handasyde's, 23, 67, 93, 94, 202, 204, 

206, 274, 275, 448. 
Houghton's, 16, 23, 94, 132, 138, 202, 

204, 206, 274, 276, 297, 448. 
Howard's, 164, 210, 377, 403. 

Ker's dragoons, 21, 61, 104, 168, 201, 

226. 
Kingston's horse, 55, 214. 
Lee's, 107, 120, 182, 202, 204, 206, 

220, 234, 274, 276, 289, 321, 350, 

448. 
Loudoun's, 61, 92, 124, 150, 155, 181, 

184, 207, 210, 213, 232, 277, 286. 
Loudoun's Highland companies, 11, 91, 

137, 202, 207, 209, 210, 213, 216, 

220, 231, 237, 269, 277, 278, 286, 

296, 299, 314, 335, 351, 409, 448, 

501. 
Mordaunt's, 93, 131, 202, 204, 205, 274, 

275 > 448- 
Lord John Murray's Highlanders, 167, 

203, 286, 384, 448. 
Naizon's dragoons, 107, 115, 177, 201, 

226. 
Oglethorpe's, 107. 
Perthshire militia, 36, 137, 149, 182, 

183, 191, 211. 
Price's, 119, 120, 150, 181, 183, 192, 

202, 204, 206, 274. 
Pulteney's, 13, 33, 48, 390. 
Royal Irish, 67, iig, 120. 
Royal Scots, 17, 43, 141, 166, 182, 189, 

202, 203, 204, 205, 274, 275. 

St. George's dragoons, 61, 168, 201, 

226, 448. 
Sackville's (late Munro's), 17, 119, 141, 

189, 202, 204, 205, 274, 276, 448. 
Sempill's, 13, 33, 48, 112, 120, 150, 177, 

203, 390. 

Skelton's, 17, 65, 150, 189, 202, 204, 

205, 274, 276, 448, 496, 501, 502, 
5ii> 512. 

Train (artillery), 196, 202, 212. 

Wolfe's, 13, 33, 48, 390. 
Arnish, 73. 

Arnold [? Arnott], Captain, 275. 
Arnott, Ensign Hugh, 277. 
Arnott, Captain, 205, 275 [?]. 



Ash, Captain, 276. 

Askew, Captain, 52. 

Assynt, 51, 52, 53. 

Atholl, James, Duke of, 43, 250, 251, 252, 

253, 254, 255. 
Atholl, 336. 
Auchabeck [?], 332. 
Auchalinan [?], 331. 
Auchinhove, 83. 
Auchnaha [?], 332. 
Auchry, 218. 
Aulashdale [?], 331. 
Aviemore, 202, 207. 
Ayr, 151, 201, 203 ; letters from, 115, 177. 

Badenoch, 11, 97, 238, 268, 271, 291, 370, 

401, 443. 470. 
Bagot, Captain, 72. 
Baillie, Captain, 226. 
Bain, John, 373, 374, 384, 440, 441, 444, 

448, 450. 

— Mrs. John, 441. 
Balahelish, vide Ballachulish. 
Bale, Captain, 205, 276. 
Balfour, James, 541. 

— Lieutenant, 16. 

Balgonie, David, Lord,' 275 ; letters of, 23, 

94. 
Ballachulish, 332, 333. 
Balloch, Boat of, 225. 
Balmerinoch, Arthur, Lord, loi, 102, 127. 
Balquhidder, 178, 225 ; letter from, 177. . 
Baltimore, H.M.S., 52, 64. 
Banff, 133, 165, 166, 202, 218, 413, 474, 

476; letters from, 165, 188. 
Banffshire, 519. 
Bannerman, Sir Alexander, of Elswick, 

318. 
Bannockburn House, 13, 423, 424, 428. 
Barber, Mr., 393. 

Barclay of Ury, 267, 268, 270, 272. 
Barker, Captain, 13, 390. 
Barra, Laird of, 70, 261, 262. 
Barra, 75, 366, 409, 443 ; letter from, 525. 
Barrell, Lieut. -General, 131. 
Barrisdale, Macdonell of, vide Macdonell 

of Barrisdale. 
Batereau, Colonel John, letter of, 45. 
Bath, 173. 

Bathouse, Lieutenant, 275. 
Battalie, Rev. — , 205. 
Baynes, Arthur, 214. 
Beckwith, Lieutenant, 205. 
Belenden, Lieutenant, 205. 
Belford, Major William, letter of, 47. 

— Lieutenant, 64. 

Belhaven and Stenton, John, Lord, 538. 

Bell, Surgeon, 206. 

Benalder, 229, 230, 231, 239, 270, 282, 284. 



AAAA 



554 



INDEX. 



Benbecula, Bailie of, vide Macdonald, 

Ronald. 
Benbecula, 39, 69, 70, 74, 75, 76, 237. 
Berard, Mr., 40. 
Bergen, 397. 

Bergen op Zoom, 454, 460, 470. 
Bergusnay [?], 177. 
Bernera, 75, 138, 206, 210, 240, 242, 296, 

366, 384, 483 ; letters from, 128, 

190, 525. 
Bervie, 79, 202. 
Berwick, John, 24. 
Berwick, 369. 

Betty, sloop, of Campbelltown, 264. 
Bien Trouvee, French brigantine, 46, 408, 

409, 410. 
Biggar, Quartermaster, 206, 276. 
Binchaskan [?], 53. 
Bird, Corporal Benjamin, 512. 
Bisset, Thomas, 247, 248, 255. 
Black, Patrick, 394. 

— Quartermaster, 226. 
Blackmail, 491. 

Blair, Rev. — , 429. 

Blair Atholl, 141, 202, 245, 246, 248, 249, 

250, 251, 252, 253. 
Blair Castle, 11, 35, 43, 95, 97, 246, 247, 

249, 250, 252, 256, 257, 258. 
Blakeney, Captain George Augustus, 130, 

205, 275. 

— Quartermaster Robert, 130. 

— Major-General William, 22, 98, 

no, 125, 151, 170, 180, 2og, 213, 
231, 243, 266, 287, 356, 363, 370, 
377. 378. 447> 539 ; letters of, 45, 
59, 67, 84, 93, III, 130, 154, 178, 
195, 200 ; letters to, 45, 134, 171. 

Bland, Major-General Humphrey, 99, 148, 
404, 412, 463, 468, 469, 472, 473, 
474> 477> 480, 492, 493, 503, 516, 
518, 520, 529, 530, 540; letters of, 
33, 119. i49> 158, 181, 191, 357, 
380; letters to, 115, 184. 

Blood (or Blyde), Andrew, 24. 

Bloody Bay, 239. 

Bofron [?], 158, 181, 203. 

Bonchelier, Captain, 276. 

Borland, Colonel A., letters of, 24, loi, 126, 
173, 199 ; letter to, 187. 

Borradale, 10, 70, 71, 72, 73, 293. 

Borrowstounness, 119, 202. 

Bostock, Lieutenant, 206, 276. 

Boswell, Alexander, Deputy- Sheriff of Wig- 
ton, 536, 541. 

— Mr., 358. 

Boullue [? Bellew], Captain, 279, 280. 
Bower, Francis, 71. 
Bowers, Ensign, 205, 275. 
Bowyer, Captain, 192. 



Boyd, James, Lord, 205. 

— William, 255, 256. 
Boyle, of Showalton [?], 358. 
Braco, William, Lord, letter of, 156. 
Braddock, Colonel, 199, 347. 
Brahan Castle, letters from, 171, 268, 
Braemar, 157. 

Brand, James, 418. 

Breadalbane, 440, 441, 444. 

Brechin, 146, 318, 501. 

Bridgewater, H.M.S., 64, 269, 297, 390. 

Brierley, Lieutenant, 205, 275. 

Brodie, James, 536. 

Broughton, Cornet, 226. 

Brown, George, 536, 541. 

— Rev. William, of Cortachy, 493, 499, 

500 ; letter of, 499. 

— Dr., of Inverness, 128. 

— Ensign, 205, 275. 

— Ensign, 276. 
Bruce, Lady, 268, 272. 

— David, Judge-Advocate-General, 34, 

35. 77, 89, 142, 398, 413, 414- 

— Henry, 320. 

— Lieutenant John, 82. 

— Robert, of Kennet, 538. 

— of Clackmannan, 358. 

— Lieutenant, 275. 
Brudnell, Jemmy, loi, 156. 
Brunstane, letters from, .515, 522. 
Bryce, William, 495. 

Buchanan, Francis, of Arnprior, 400, 414, 
419. 

— Patrick, of Spital, 400. 

— Robert, 320, 444 [?]. 

— Thomas, 400. 

— Lieutenant, 205, 275. 
Buchlyvie, 158, 181, 192, 203, 445. 
Buck, Captain, 206, 276. 
Buckley, Captain, 226. 

— Ensign, 206, 276. 
Buckston, Lieutenant, 205, 274. 
Burntisland, 13, 33, 404. 
Burt, Edward, 152. 

Burton, Captain Thomas, 199 ; letter of, 198. 
Bury, George, Viscount, 2, 4, 6, 9, loi, 199, 

285. 
Bushell, Captain, 226. 
Butler, of St. Malo, 271. 

— Ensign, 323. 

— Rev. — , 273. 

Cadogan, Charles, Lord, 106. 

Caithness, 32, 144, 196, 507. 

Calgary, letter from, 89. 

Callander, 178. 

Callendar, James, of Craigforth, 539. 

Calve, letter from, 92. 

Cameron, Alexander, of Clunes, 271, 



INDEX. 



555 



Cameron, Alexander, ot Glenevis, 27. 

— Alexander, of Lisdale [?], 332. 

— Alexander, 304, 335. 

— Lieutenant Allan, 266, 304, 335. 

— Angus, of Kinlochleven, 291, 335. 

— Angus, brother of Glenevis, 27, 291, 

335, 338, 346, 376- 

— Angus, 394. 

— Dr. Archibald, 92, 241, 266, 268, 

271, 273, 281, 282, 293, 299, 304, 
326, 335, 368, 373, 376, 443, 448, 
469, 470, 471, 474, 478, 526. 

— Mrs. Archibald, 238, 291. 

— Donald, of Lochiel, 16, 37, 72, 

228, 229, 230, 238, 239, 241, 263, 
266, 268, 270, 271, 280, 281, 282, 
288, 293, 299, 303, 304, 325, 335, 
410, 425, 461, 465, 470, 474, 478. 

— Donald, 304, 335. 

— Duncan, of Kinlochleven, 291, 333. 

— Duncan, 291. 

— Evan, 293. 

— Hugh, 394. 

— John, of Fassefern, 333, 337, 506. 

— John, 394. 

— Ludovick, of Torcastle, 241, 266, 

273, 289, 291, 293, 300, 326, 335, 
346, 367, 368, 373, 383, 443, 449, 
469, 471. 

— Murdoch, 27. 

— of Arrochar [?], 327, 335, 347. 

— of Clunes, 271, 337. 

— of Glenpean, 337. 

— of Murlaggan, 304, 335. 

— of Strone, 335, 425, 426. 

— Rev. — , brother of Lochiel, 407. 

— Mr., 358. 

— Clan, 292, 299, 303, 304, 306, 307, 

311, 312, 313, 327, 332, 337, 346, 
372, 422, 449, 484, 506, 525, 527, 
528. 
Campbell, Alexander, of Achingaran [?], 
224. 

— Alexander, of Arslignes [?], 318. 

— Alexander, of Octomore [?], 224. 

— Lieutenant Alexander, 207, 277. 

— Captain Alexander, Deputy-Governor 

of Fort William, 113, 372, 446, 
503, 504; letters of, 44, 85, 94, 
443 ; letters to, 107, 129. 

— Angus, 394. 

— Archibald, of Inverawe, 224. 

— Archibald, of Jura, 223. 

— Archibald, of Knockbuy, 224. 

— Archibald, of Stonefield, Sheriff-De- 

pute of Argyll, 224, 358, 366, 374, 
383, 440, 441, 444, 446, 448, 449, 
536, 540 ; letters of, 365, 375 ; 
letters to, 228, 230, 367. 



Campbell, Charles, 536, 539. 

— Colin, of Carwhine [?], 224, 503. 

— Colin, of Ederline, 224. 

— Colin, of Skipness, 224, 409. 

— Lieutenant Colin, 207. 

— Daniel, of Dergachy [?], 224. 

— David, of Donlokin [? Dunloskin], 

224. 

— Donald, of Airds, 224, 228, 327, 368, 

440, 441, 444, 446, 450, 503 ; letters 
of, 238, 469, 525. 

— Donald, of Island Stalker Castle, 

238, 291 ; letters of, 228, 230 [?], 

239- 

— Dugald, of Achachrossan [?], 224. 

— Dugald, of Cruachan, 224. 

— Dugald, 36, 62 ; letters of, 22, 54. 

— Captain Duncan, of Inveraray, 440, 

441, 450; letters of, 167, 443, 444. 

— Captain Duncan, of Inverawe, 224, 

503. 504- 

— Duncan, of South Hall, 224. 

— George, of Carsegownie, letter of, 

498. 

— Sir James, of Ardkinglass, 539. 

— James, of Inveresragan, 224. 

— James, of Rashoyllie [?], 224. 

— Captain James, 36, 149, 182, 183, 

184, 191, 207, 211; letter of, 177. 

— Lieutenant James, 277. 

— John, of Achaderrery [?], 223. 

— John, of Barcaldine, 223. 

— John, of Kinloch, 318. 

— John, of Killdallorg [?], 224. 

— Hon. John, of Mamore, 32, 39, 44, 

57, 69, 75, 76, 85, 98, 125, 138, 
190, 215, 219, 230, 236, 239, 263, 
297, 332, 333, 408, 409, 410,412; 
letters of, 37, 81, 139, 155, 221 ; 
letters to, 169, 238, 239. 

— Lieut. -Colonel John, of Mamore, 37, 

38, 81, 82, 98, 140, 207, 410, 412; 
letters of, 57, 66, 92. 

— John, of Succoth, 536, 538. 

— John, 114, 129. 

— Lachlan, 239. 

— Neil, of Achinwillin [?], 224. 

— Neil, of Dunstaffnage, 223. 

— Neil, of Duntroon, 223. 

— Neil, 413. 

— Neil, 503. 

— Ensign Patrick, 207, 277. 

— Patrick, 312, 328, 369, 399, 419, 424, 

431 ; information furnished by, 
303-305. 331-40. 

— Robert, of Asknish, 224. 

— Robert, of Kintra, 224. 

— of Calder, 422. 
Campbelltown, 239, 240, 264, 446. 



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INDEX. 



Canna, 69, 70, 265, 366, 372, 409. 

Carleton, Ensign, 205, 275. 

Carlisle, 151, 177, 205, 245, 259, 276, 404 ; 
trial of Jacobite prisoners at, 7, 8, 
17. 65, 99, iig, 164, 195, 287, 302, 
369. 395. 396, 398, 399> 401. 402, 
404, 405, 410, 411, 412, 413, 415, 
416, 418, 419, 420 ; letter from, 
163. 

Carmichael, James, 453, 459 ; letter_^of, 459. 

Caroline, Princess, 173. 

Carr, George, 536. 

— Ensign, 206. 
Carstairs, Rev. Thomas, 429. 
Carter, Captain, 206, 275. 

— Ensign, 275. 

Cassillis, John, Earl of, 21 ; letter of, 21. 
Cassley, Lieut.-Colonel, 205, 276. 
Castle Drummond, 149. 
Castle Menzies, 35, 43, 97. 
Cathcart, Charles Schaw, Lord, 538. 
Caulfield, Major William, 44, 145, 227, 503, 

504- 
Chabane, Major P., 60, 62, 103, 108 ; letter 

of, 19. 
Chadwick, Thomas, 24. 
Chalmers, George, W.S., 41. 

— Captain, 323. 
Chambre, Major, 200, 275. 
Chandler, Thomas, 426. 
Chape, James, 394. 
Chapman, Captain, 206, 276. 
Charles, Stewart, 339. 

Charles Edward, Prince, militrry parties in 
search of, 10, 11, 12, 32, 38, 50, 53, 
58, 60, 66, 92, 97, 98, 139, 231, 
234, 236, 412 ; said to have used 
Lord George Sackville's bed dur- 
ing his wanderings, 340; move- 
ments of, 10, II, 12, 14, 15, 17, 27, 
32, 37, 38, 51. 52, 55, 92, 97, 228, 
229, 230, 231, 237, 238, 239, 270, 
272, 281, 282, 400, 408, 418, 424; 
French attempts to rescue, 33, 45, 
46, 171, 236, 237, 238, 241, 268, 
271, 273, 279, 297, 299, 408, 409 ; 
on the Long Island, 69, 70, 71 ; 
O'Neil's narrative of his flight 
from Culloden, 71 et seq. ; cook to, 
70, 72 ; assumes the incognito of 
" Sinclair," 73 ; resolves to sur- 
render, 75, 412; Albemarle urged 
to effect his capture, 137 ; reported 
to be dead, 209, 405 ; his escape 
rumoured, 220, 227, 228, 233 ; his 
capture at sea reported, 294 ; re- 
ported to be in Mull, 231 ; cele- 
bration of his birthday at Edin- 
burgh {1747), 348, 350, 351 ; escape 



of (September 20, 1746), 238, 240, 
241, 242, 244, 262-63, 264, 265, 
266, 267, 268, 278, 280, 282, 289, 
293, 294, 295, 304 ; at Blair Atholl 
(August, 1745), 247, 248, 249, 250, 
256, 257, 258 ; at Lude (September, 
1745), 247, 248, 257, 258; at 
Dunkeld, 250, 251, 252 ; reasons 
for retreat of, from Derby, 259 ; 
proposes to die sword in hand, 
282 ; communications to his fol- 
lowers at his departure, 282, 291, 
299, 303, 305, 338, 460 ; expectation 
of his return, 367, 375. 

Charters, Lieutenant, 206, 275. 

Chelsea Hospital, 14, 484. 

Chisholm, Clan, 422. 

Christie, Lieutenant, 205, 275. 

Churchill, Lieut. -General, 443, 447, 448, 

453, 503- 
Ciliestiella, 75. 

Clanranald, Macdonald of, vide Macdonald. 
Clanronald, Ronald, 69. 
Clare, Charles O'Brien, Viscount, 295. 
Clark, Isobel, 500. 

— Robert, 500. 
Clarke, Captain, 226. 
Clasterim, 261. 

Clayton, Lieut.-Colonel James, letter of, 

163. 
Clerk, John, 224. 
Cliffe, Lieutenant, 206, 276. 
Clifton, skirmish at, 168, 259, 261. 
Clifton (Perths.), 366. 
Cloudsley, Lieutenant, 206, 275. 
Cluny Macpherson, vide Macpherson of 

Cluny. 
" Cluny's Treasure," vide Loch Arkaig. 
Cochrane, Andrew, Provost of Glasgow, 

113, 129, 132. 

— Mr., Commissioner of Excise, 161. 
Coigach, 52. 

Coldstream Guards, regiment of, 24, loi, 

118, 126, 150, 173, 187, 199. 
Colquhoun, Humphrey^ 196 ; letter to, 153. 

— Major James, of Luss, 443 ; letter of, 

445- 

— James, letter of, 169. 

— Mr., Sheriff-Depute for Dumbarton, 

358. 
Colvil, Major, 158. 
Colvill, Dr., 319. 
Colville, Lieutenant, 205, 276. 
Colyear, General, 198, 323. 
Comrie, 178. 
Conchie, Rev. — , 374. 
Conway, Colonel, 12. 

— Mr., 10. 

Cooke, Quartermaster Nathaniel, 403. 



INDEX, 



55; 



Cope, Sir John, 95, 106, 145, 181, 199, 219, 

339- 
Copland, Alexander, Bailie of Aberdeen, 32, 

41. 77- 
Coradale, 74, 75. 
Corneille, Captain, 205, 275. 
Cornwallis, Charles, Lord, 142. 
Corrichichan [?], 225. 
Cortachy, 493, 499, 500. 
Coul, 13, 48. 

Coupar, Patrick, Bailie of Perth, 507, 510. 
Coupar Angus, 142, 202, 205, 276. 
Courts martial, vide Army. 
Cowse, Cornet, 107, 226. 
Craigie, Robert, late Lord Advocate, 352, 

358; letter of, 359. 
Crauford, Captain, 205, 275. 
Crawfurd, Major, 390, 391. 

— Mr., 460. 
Crianlarich, 225. 
Crichton, Thomas, junr., 319. 

— of Auchengool, 320. 

Crieff, 43, 149, 167, 175, 177, 178, 182, 202, 

495 ; letter from, 184. 
Crinlarick, vide Crianlarich. 
Crocker, Ensign, 205. 
Cromarty, George, Earl of, 51, 89, loi. 
Cromarty, 33, 63, 84, 154, 179, 384, 505. 
Crosby, Captain, 65. 

— Captain, 35, 150. 
Cross, Dean, 226. 

— William, 536, 539. 
Culcoy, William, 52. 
Culdairs, 440. 

Cullen, 3, 166, 202, 400, 476 ; letter from, 

477- 

Culloden, battle of, 3, 35, 71, 426, 502. 

Culton, Ensign, 22. 

Cumberland, William, Duke of, i, 2, 3, 4, 
5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 25, 34, 40, 68, 77, 
78, 82, 83, 87, 90, 99, 118, 124, 
126, 139, 148, 160, 162, 164, 175, 
176, 179, 184, 192, 197, ig8, 199, 
211, 222, 231, 242, 259, 263, 278, 
284, 297, 315, 316, 328, 341, 347, 

353> 354. 378, 380, 390, 391. 397, 
408, 409, 410, 424, 452, 454, 478. 

Cummings, Lieutenant, 226. 

Cunningham, Lady, 268, 272. 

— Lieut. -Colonel David, letter of, 48. 

— Captain William, 177, 178, 182, 183 ; 

letter of, 184. 

— Major, 151. 
Cupar, 119, 141, 201. 
Cuthbert, James, 250, 252. 

— of Castle-hill, 315. 

Dalcross Castle, 310. 
Dale, Lieutenant, 206, 276. 



Dalelea, 241. 

Dalgarnio, Lieutenant, 205, 276. 

Dalkeith, 201, 429. 

Dalling, Quartermaster, 226. 

Dallmore, 157, 158. 

Dallninclearach [?], 50. 

Dalmahoy, Sir Alexander, 400, 

— Alexander, 400. 
Dalmally, 225. 
Dalnacardoch, 202. 
Dalrachne [?], 91. 
Dahops, vide Dalcross. 
Dalrymple, David, 536, 537. 

— George, Baron of Exchequer, 456, 

458. 

— James, vide James, Earl of Stair. 

— Captain John, 456. Vide John, Earl 

of Stair. 

— Colonel William, 455, 457. 

— Ensign, 205, 275. 

— Lieutenant, 205, 276. 
Dalton, Lieutenant, 205, 276. 
Dalwhinnie, 202. 
Davidson, Anna, 513. 

— James, 493 ; information against, 

498. 

— John, 501. 

— Patrick, of Woodmiln, 513. 

— Patrick, late Provost of Perth, 509, 

510, 512. 
Dawson, James, 24. 
Deacon, Thomas, 24. 
Dean, Lieut. -Colonel, 276. 
Debuts, Lieutenant, 206, 275. 
Decosne, Captain, 205, 276. 
Dejean, Colonel Lewis, 133, 185 ; letters 

of, 165, 188. 
Denson, Lieutenant, 276. 
Derby, reasons for the retreat of Prince 

Charles from, 259. 
Deribegg [?], 225. 
Dobson, Captain, 205. 
Dodd, Captain, 205, 275. 
Donald, Baptista, 382. 
Douglas, George, 44, 446 ; letters of, 15, 

102, 446, 470, 506. 

— Charles, 418, 420. 

— Sir John, of Kilhead, 13, 14, 423, 

424, 428, 441. 

— William, 246. 

— Surgeon, 206. 

Doune, 120, 149, 150, 167, 181, 192, 202. 

— Castle, 43. 
Dowdeswell, Mr., 160. 
Downan, 291. 
Downes, Captain, 226. 
Downie, Alexander, 158. 
Draper, Lieutenant, 79, 80. 
Drimeoragig [?], 331. 



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INDEX. 



Drimnin, 331. 

Druim Cosaidh, 38. 

Drumlithie, 548. 

Drummelzier, 201. 

Drummond, George, of Drumnaquhaine [?], 

319- 

— George, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 

160, 161, 423, 469, 472, 473, 519. 

— James, of Colquhalzie [?], 319. 

— James, of Gatherlees [?], 400. 

— Lord John, 3, 72, no, 147, 148, 260, 

461, 465, 502. 

— Lord Lewis, of Melfort, 84, 98, in, 

154, 155, 179 ; letter of, 40. 

— {alias Macgregor), William, of Bal- 

haldie, 442, 443, 445, 446, 449, 450, 
471 ; letter of, 451. 

— William, of Callander, 319. 

— of Lennox, 158, 159, 181, 182, 192, 

203, 225, 445. 
Drummond Castle, 182, 495. 
Drummore, Lord, 537. 
Drummullar, vide Drummelzier. 
Ducasne, Captain, 187. 
Duart, 206, 276, 294. 
Dudepet, Lieutenant, 45, 46, 410. 
Dudesert, Lieutenant, 67, 84. 
Duff, James, 400. 

— William, 536, 537. 

— of Hatton, 134. 

— of Premnay, 537. 
Duguid of Auchinhove, 83. 
Dumbarton, 221, 225. 

— Castle, 21, 138, 155, 156, 328 ; letters 

from, 17, 19, 162, 169. 
Dumbartonshire, 519. 
Dumfries, Penelope, Countess of, 455, 457. 

— Dumfries, William, Earl of, protest 

on behalf of the Earl of Stair, 455. 
Dumfries, 201, 413, 428. 
Dunbar, Lieut.-Colonel Thomas, 143 ; 

letters of, 22, 131. 
Dunbar, 392. 

Dunblane, 120, 149, 150, 181, 183, 202. 
Duncan, Ensign, 205, 275. 

— Rev. — , 205, 276. 
Duncanson, Alexander, 224. 
Dundas, Bailie, 467. 

— Lawrence, 67, 135, 136, 183, 192 ; 

letter of, 95. 

— Robert, of Arniston, 358, 549, 550. 

— Captain, 323. 

— Ensign, 323. 

Dundee, 43, 99, 202, 319, 404, 414, 426, 
501 ; letters from, 118, 141, 186, 
197. 

Dundonald, 51. 

Dunfermline, 203, 413. 

Duniewassells, 491. 



Dunkeld, 43, 95, 141, 250, 251, 252, 253, 
254. 255, 311, 414, 443, 492 ; letter 
from, 495. 

Dunmore, John, Earl of, 5, 6. 

Dunn, Cornet, 226. 

Dunstaffnage, 82, 114, 294. 

Duroure, Lieut.-Colonel, 206, 302, 303, 304, 
330, 448 ; letter of, 312. 

Dury, Colonel, 4. 

Earle, Major, 174. 

Edinburgh, 12, 13, 47, 55, 77, 84, 86, 90, 
95, 100, 104, 182, 184, 185, 200, 
202, 234, 259, 302, 310, 336, 348, 

349. 350> 351. 369- 394> 399, 400, 
413, 415, 416, 423, 429, 441, 453, 
461, 472, 473 ; letters from, 12, 21, 
47. 48. 49. 55> 86, 95, 99, 100, 120, 
144, 154, 159, 213, 214, 220, 222, 
227, 234, 235, 242, 262, 267, 269, 
278, 284, 286, 294, 298, 299, 301, 
315, 321, 325, 326, 328, 329, 341, 
343. 344. 347, 348, 350, 352, 353, 
354, 356, 359. 363. 366, 368, 374, 
377. 381, 382, 385. 389. 390. 392, 
395. 397. 398, 400, 401, 404, 410, 
411, 414, 415, 417, 418, 420, 421, 
423, 426, 427, 430, 431, 432, 434, 
436, 437. 438. 439. 446, 447. 449. 
451. 459. 460. 462, 463, 466, 468, 
471, 473, 479. 492, 497. 505, 507. 
517, 524, 528, 529, 543. 

Edmonds, Lieutenant, 205, 276. 

Edmonstone of Newton [?], 35. 

Eglinton, Alexander, Earl of, 364, 539. 

Eguilles, Marquis d', 164. 

Eigg, 264, 299, 376, 433. 

Elchies, Lord, 358, 538, 541. 

Elcho, David, Lord, 72. 

Elgin, 3, 23, 67, 94, 145, 147, 202; letters 
frojn, 94, 104, 169. 

Elibank, Lady, 324. 

Elizabeth, the, of Glasgow, 393. 

Ellagol, 69. 

Elliot, Sir Gilbert, Lord Minto, 358, 453, 
539 ; letter of, 459. 

— Gilbert, 536, 539. 
Elphinston, Lieutenant Charles, 112. 
Elrington, Ensign, 205, 275. 
Eltham, letters from, 32, 37, 39, 63. 
Embargo upon Scottish ports, 17, 43, 55, 

260, 401. 

Episcopal ministers, 425, 428, 429, 507, 518, 
546. Vide also Nonjuring Meet- 
ing-houses. 

Erskine, Lord, 358, 538. 

— James, 536, 538. 

— of Sinwell, 358. 

— Captain, 205, 275. 



INDEX. 



559 



Euirn, Island, 74. 
Evelyn, Captain, 348. 
Experiment, H.M.S., 138. 
Eyre, Captain, 206, 275. 

Falie, Ford of, 72. 

Falkirk, 182, 183, 406. 

Faroline, 72. 

Farquhar, Rev. — , Dumfries, 428. 

Farquharson, James, of Balmoral, 319. 

Fasnakyle, Braes of, 229. 

Fassefern, 333. 

Fauld, James, 411. 

Fawkener, Sir Everard, 44, 49, 55, 63, 99, 
113, 140, 294, 396, 398, 407 ; letters 
of, 12, 391 ; letter to, 390. 

Feltoe, Captain, 276. 

Ferguson, James, of Craigdarroch, 538. 

— James, 405, 535. 

Fergusson, Captain John, 76, 190, 298, 407, 
408, 409, 410 ; letter of, 219. 

Ferrier, Captain David, 146. 

Ferrybridge, 104. 

Ferruish [?], 331. 

Field, Captain, 276. 

Findhorn, 202. 

Findlater and Seafield, Earl of, 460, 474, 
537 ; letter of, 476 ; letter to, 477. 

Findlayson of Dunkeld, 443. 

Finlay, Andrew, 256. 

— Robert, letters of, 107, 113, 129, 132. 

— William, Bailie of Campbelltown, 

264.' 
Fisher, Duncan, 224. 
Fitzgerald, Captain, 206, 276. 
Fitz-James's horse, 148. 
Fleming, Brigadier, 164, 205, 275. 

— Lieutenant, 205, 275. 

Fletcher, Andrew, Lord Justice-Clerk. 13, 
14. 17, 34. 35. 65, 98, 138, 193, 
210, 214, 317, 321, 322, 325, 326, 
330, 349. 350, 358, 361, 363. 3^9. 
376, 382, 383, 384; letters of, 42, 
49. 55. 781 86, 99, 100, 120, 389, 
390, 392, 395. 397. 398, 400, 401. 
404, 410, 411, 414, 415, 417, 418, 
420, 421, 423, 426, 427, 430, 431, 
432, 434. 436, 437. 438. 439. 446. 
447. 449. 451. 452, 453. 460, 462, 
463, 466, 468, 471, 473, 479, 492, 
497. 505, 507. 515. 516, 517, 518, 
522, 524, 526, 528, 529, 542, 543, 
550; letters to, 7, 41, 48, 76, 82, 
193, 288, 391, 407, 443, 445, 459, 
469, 470, 476, 504, 506, 520, 549 ; 
son of, 549, 550. 

— George, 24. 
Fochabers, 166, 202. 
Foggo, John, 256. 



FoUiot, Lieut.-General, loi, 106. 
Forbes, James, Lord, 270, 

— Duncan, of Culloden, Lord President 

of the Court of Session, 145, 146, 
147. 210, 337, 349, 350, 396, 422, 
427, 428. 

— George, 41. 

— James, 394. 

— Lieutenant John, of Newe, 503, 504. 
— • Rev. Patrick, 429. 

— Bishop Robert, 270. 

— Rev. William, 429. 

— Lieutenant, 205, 275. 

— of Rotterdam, 526. 
Fordyce, James, 362. 
Forfar, letter from, 48. 
Forfarshire, 515. 

Forres, 202; letters from, 131, 143, 147. 

Forrester, Major James, letter of, 175. 

Fort Augustus, 9, 10, 11, 43, 55, 72, 90, 91, 
95, 104, 154, 166, 176, 190, 202, 
213, 214, 227, 230, 289, 336, 483, 
540; letters from, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 
14, 68, 71, 97, no, 125, 231, 243, 
384, 391, 407, 408, 413, 448, 470. 

Fort George, 9, 289, 448. 

Fort William, 9, 11, 22, 36, 39, 44, 54, 62, 
63, 93, 96, 98, 113, 114, 115, 202, 
211, 238, 243, 289, 291, 292, 297, 
303. 304, 330, 333. 361, 440. 448, 
483, 503 ; letters from, 15, 26, 44, 
62, 85, 94, 96, 102, 179, 265, 312, 
446, 470, 505, 526. 

Fortrose, Kenneth, Lord, 12, 302, 314, 329, 
422 ; letters of, 171, 268 ; letter to, 
269. 

Fortrose, the, 358. 

Foulden, 201. 

Fowke, Brigadier-General Thomas, 106, 
199. 

Fowlis, Rev. Henry, 429. 

Fox, Rt. Hon. Henry, n8, 126, 348 ; letters 
of, 106, 112, 168, 174. 

Fox, H.M.S., 146. 

Fraser, Alexander, of Inverness, 434. 

— Alexander, of Tomnavoulin, 434. 

— Andrew, 351. 

— Charles, of Fairfield, 319. 

— Charles, of Inverallochy, 319. 

— Rev. Donald, 436. 

— Hugh, of Dumballoch, 356, 435. 

— Hugh, secretary to Lord Lovat, 155, 

196, 211, 214, 287, 316, 341, 344, 
425, 426, 427. 

— Hugh, 356. 

— James, of Fanblair [?], 434. 

— James, Bailie of Inverness, 135. 

— John, chamberlain to Lord Lovat, 

356. 



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INDEX. 



Fraser, John, Provost ot Inverness, 135. 

— John, 356. 

— John, 426. 

— Peter, 339. 

— Robert, of Castle-Leathers, 369, 431, 

432. 

— Robert, 165. 

— Hon. Simon, Master of Lovat, 90, 91, 

no, 121, 125, 211, 287, 315, 345, 
417, 426, 453, 454 ; letter of, 89. 

— Thomas, of Struy, 435. 

— Thomas, 257. 

— William, 427, 434. 

— William, W.S., 455. 

— Captain, 205, 275. 

— of Foyers, 319. 

— of Gortleg, 356. 

— Mr., solicitor, 433. 

— Clan, 311, 312, 313, 370, 371, 422, 

426. 

Fraserburgh, 33, 122, 166, 202. 

Frearson, Ensign, 276. 

French officers, 40, 45, 67, 84, 164, 171, 
263, 266, 287, 297, 338, 345, 364, 
369, 381, 382, 383, 408, 410. 

— soldiers, 150, 183, 414. 

— ships in British waters, 15, 26, 27, 32, 

33. 45. 46, 63, 64, 146, 228, 236, 
238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 264, 
265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 271, 273, 
279, 280, 282, 299, 367, 368, 375, 
376, 383, 408, 409, 433, 443, 446, 
447. 448, 525, 526, 528. 

— schemes for the invasion of England, 

260, 372, 376, 465, 478, 495, 525. 
Frew, Ford of, 192= 
Frigge, Mr., 67, 135, 136. 
Funnary, 332. 
Furnace, H.M.S., 55, 63, 64, 73, 76, 190, 

219, 298, 390, 409. 

Gachen, Lieutenant, 408. 
Gage, Captain, 165, 206, 275. 
Gairloch, 54, 269, 408. 
Gall, John, of Kinloch, 319. 
Galloway, Alexander, Earl of, 538. 
Garden, Alexander, of Troup, 214, 217, 220, 
493, 494 ; letter of, 504. 

— David, of Laloun [?], 319. 

— Francis, 536, 537. 
Gardiner, Major, 104, 226. 

— Mr., 67. 

Garioch, Alexander, of Mergie [?], 521. 

Garmouth, 202. 

Gartmore, 191, 400. 

Garve, 50. 

Garveymore, 202. 

Gascoign, Lieutenant, 206. 

George IL, King, 199. 



Gibraltar, H.M.S., 390. 

Gillon, John, 536, 540. 

Glamis, 134, 185. 

Glasgow, 90, 158, 182, 202, 203, 227, 260, 

296, 297, 383, 424, 428, 453 ; letters 

from, 107, 113, 129, 132. 
Glasgow, H.M.S., 33, 46, 63, 64, in, 146, 

147. 154. 179. 269, 409, 410. 
Glenaladale, 271, 291. 
Glenartney, 185. 
Glencairn, William, Earl of, 538. 
Glencoe, 292, 333, 366, 374, 383. 
Glen Creran, 229. 
Glendee, 157. 

Glen Dessary, 37, 38, 66, 81, 92, 97, 139. 
Glendourar [?], 333. 
Glenelg, 51, 336. 
Glenevis, 27, 333. 
Glen Falloch, 225. 
Glenfinnan, 238. 

Glentfrafarrar, vide Glenstrathfarrar. 
Glengarry, 27, 311, 312, 313, 336, 470. 
Glenkindie, 469. 
Glenlouh [?], 406. 

Glenlyon, Lady, of Culdairs, 338, 444. 
Glenlyon, 444. 
Glen Morar, 72. 

Glenmoriston, 11, 15, 90, 97, 313, 336. 
Glenorchy, John, Lord, 288, 539. 
Glenpean, 72, 92. 
Glenshiel, 11. 
Glenstrathfarrar, 313. 
Godfrey, Captain, 276. 
Godolphin, Francis, Earl of, 348. 
Gomeperra, or Gomessera, Mr., 93, 124. 
Goodenough, Captain, 205, 275. 
Gordon, Cosmo-George, Duke of, 28, 165, 

179, 302, 330. 

— Charles, of Terpersie, 195, 400. 

— Lieutenant Adam, 218, 276 [?]. 

— Gilbert, Bailie of Inverness, 135. 

— John, of Avochy, 170, 493, 494, 504, 

505- 

— Lord Lewis, 134, 147, 170, 273, 289. 

— Rev. Patrick, 429. 

— Sir William, 316, 476. 

— William, Bailie of Aberdeen, 32, 41, 

57. 77. 117. 195- 

— of Aberlour, junr., 320. 

— of Glenbucket, 35, 170, 273, 289. 

— of Kirkhill, 320. 

— Captain, 323. 

— Captain, 476. 

— Ensign, 205. 

— Ensign, 323. 

— Lieutenant, 275. 
Gordon Castle, 246. 
Gore, Captain, 205, 275. 

— Captain, 226, 



INDEX. 



S6l 



Goring, Captain, 206, 276. 

Gortleg, 72. 

Gow, Donald, 250, 251. 

— James, 249. 

Grafton, Charles, Duke of, i, 10, 348. 
Graham, Alexander, 445. 

— David, of Duntroon, 397. 

— John, of Kilmardinny, 320. 

— Mungo, 358, 400. 

— Robert, of Garvock, 319. 

— Walter, of Drunkie, 320, 445. 

— of Duchray, 445, 

— of Gartmore, igi. 

Grant, Captain Alexander, 216, 217, 288. 

— Alexander,^ Sheriff of Aberdeen, loi, 

121, 357 ; letter of, 82. 

— Allan, 394. 

— Sir Archibald, of Monymusk, 537. 

— Duncan, letter of, 152. 

— Sir James, 422. 

— Rev. James, 99. 

— James, 417. 

— Rev. John, 417. 

— John, 536, 538, 540. 

— Lachlan, W.S., 455. 

— William, Lord Advocate, 301, 315, 

316, 317, 325, 330, 349, 352, 353, 
358, 361, 369, 382, 427, 428, 436, 
467, 468, 469, 472, 474, 493, 497, 
.519. 523> 537; letters of, 318, 421. 

— Lieutenant William, 207. 

— Williarn, 170. 

— Laird of, 83. 

— Clan, 292, 313, 336, 484. 
Grant Castle, 91. 
Grantsfield,'^ letter from, 82. 
Gray, John, Lord, 357. 

— John, 100. 

— David, 424, 442. 

— William, 394, 399. 

— Major, 143. 

— Mr., 399, 418, 419. 
Great Stoughton, 102. 
Green, Sergeant, 226. 
Greenock, 393. 

Greig, Rev. Alexander, 518, 521, 548. 
Greyhound, H.M.S., 32, 63, 64, 408, 409. 
Griffith, P. Robert, 234. 
Gririfield, Captain, 205, 275. 
Guest, Lieut. -General, 220. 
Gunn, Captain, 232. 

Habeas Corpus Act, suspension of, 301, 317, 

325, 383, 436. 
Haddington, 201, 413. 
Haining, Lord, 358, 539. 



Haldamot, Mr., solicitor, 413. 
Haldane, Alexander, 319. 

— John, 319. 

— Patrick, 413, 414. 
Halkett, Sir Peter, 321, 379. 

— Ensign, 206, 276. 
Haliburton, Mr., 338. 
Hall, Sir John, 118. 

— Cornet, 168. 
Hamilton, James, Duke of, 102. 

— Captain Charles, 13, 60, 62, 89, 103, 

108, 352, 353, 358, 359, 403, 407 ; 
letter of, 48 ; letter to, 49. 

— James, 358, 536, 539. 

— John, 150. 

— Robert, of Bardewie [?], 320, 445. 

— Major-General, 226. 
Hamilton, 260. 

Handasyde, Lieut. -General, letter to, 230. 
Happy yanet, H.M.S., 64. 
Hardcastle, Ensign Thomas, 164. 
Harper, Corporal William, 511. 

— Rev. William, 429. 
Hart, Captain, 276. 
Harvey, Captain, 206, 275. 

— Lieutenant, 20. 
Harvie, James, 394, 399. 
Hawke, Admiral, 468. 

Hawley, Lieut.-General Henry, 5, 6, 260. 
Hay, Charles, of Ranas [?], 261, 319, 477. 

— Thomas, 535. 

— Captain, 205, 275. 
Hazard, H.M.S., 146. 
Hegginson, John, 509. 
Henderson, Robert, 379. 

— Patrick, 413, 419, 431. 

Henry Benedict, Prince, Cardinal York, 

271. 
Hepburn, Miss, 322, 324. 
Hepworth, Lieutenant, 205. 
Herrison, Rev. — , 334. 
Hesse, Prince Frederick of, 4. 

— Princess of, 173. 
Hessian troops, 4, 261, 389, 390. 
Hewston, Lieutenant, 324. 
Hicks, Captain, 199. 
Higginson, Lieutenant Joseph, 131. 
Highlands, Act for disarming the, 473, 479, 

482, 488, 493, 503 ; causes of law- 
lessness in, 305, 480 ; King's 
bursaries in, 310 ; money disbursed 
by Cluny in, vide Loch Arkaig; 
parishes in, 306, 308, 309, 487 ; 
places burnt and destroyed in, 331 
et seq. ; Roman Catholic priests in, 
306, 308, 334, 482 ; schools in, 306, 



1 The signature appended to his letter (No. LX., supra) should read " Al. 
^ Now known as Midmar Castle, 

BBBB 



and not " M.' 



562 



INDEX. 



308, 482, 420 ; spirit of, after Prince 
Charles's departure, 291, 295, 299, 
300, 303, 304, 312, 313, 326, 331 
et seq., 346, 365, 367, 370, 371-74, 
383, 432, 449, 460, 461, 465, 469, 
470, 524, 525, 527; suggestions 
for the settlement of, 283, 289, 
307-11, 357, 447, 462, 479, 480-92, 
529; visiting committee recom- 
mended for, 310; military posts 
for guarding the, 158, 181, 191, 
192, 209, 222, 225, 327, 347, 365, 

366, 374, 383- 448. 489- 
Hislop, Christopher, 441. 
Hodgson, Mr., 10. 
Holmes, Lieutenant, 205, 275. 
Home, William, Earl of, 537. 

— Alexander, 161. 

— David, 400. 

— Henry, 399, 413, 419, 537, 542. 

— of Manderston, 400. 
Honey wood. General, 5, 6. 
Hope, Lieutenant, 205, 276, 408. 
Hopetoun, John, Earl of, 452, 460. 
Horse-shoe Bay, 51, 52, 140, 156; letters 

from, 32, 37, 63, 81. 
Howard, Lieut.-Colonel George, 210, 403, 

404, 412 ; letter of, 163. 
Howe, Captain, 341. 
Hudson, Captain, 408. 
Hume, Rev. Alexander, 207, 277. 

— Norwell, 268, 272. 
Humphreys, Charles, 252, 254. 
Hunter, David, of Burnside, 319, 495. 
Huske, Major-General John, 4, 120, 122, 276, 

357, 367, 383, 436, 438, 441, 443 ; 
letter of, 350. 

Iffurt, Island, 74. 

Inches, David, 253. 

Inglis, Sir John, of Cramond, 467. 

— John, 21. 
Innes, Alexander, 170. 

— Sir Harry, 145 ; letter of, 169. 

— Sir James, 319. 

— James, 400, 418. 

— Provost, of Banff [?], 218. 
Inveraray, 82, 114, 115, 167, 203, 303, 311, 

331 ; letters from, 139, 155, 167, 
221, 222, 241, 365, 367, 375, 444, 
526. 

Invergarry Castle, 72. 

Invermallie, 406. 

Invermoriston, 90. 

Inverness, 11, 33, 40, 54, 63, 71, 84, 98, 128, 
144, 147, 148, 153, 167, 202, 205, 
209, 211, 213, 214, 232, 296, 310, 
311, 329, 339, 340, 351, 363, 370, 
381, 383, 417, 432, 433, 434, 448, 



503 ; letters from, 20, 22, 23, 40, 
45, 54, 59, 67, 68, 84, go, 93, iii, 
130, 134, 135, 152, 154, 178, 180, 
195, 200, 237, 355. 

Inverness-shire, 315, 422, 462, 493. 

Inversanda, 225. 

Inversnaid, 27, 181, 289. 

Inverurie, 371 ; skirmish at, 134, 148, 170. 

Irvine, 297, 383, 393. 

Island Stalker Castle, 225, 230, 332, 365, 
366, 374, 383 ; letters from, 228, 
230 [?]. 

Jackson, Lieut.-Colonel George, 30, 83, 
122, 134, 185, 193 ; letters of, 27, 
59, 123. 

— William, W.S., 361, 454. 
Jedburgh, letter from, 550. 
Jefferys, Brigadier, 173, 199. 

— Ensign, 206, 275. 
Jepson, Captain, 206, 275. 
Johnshaven, 202. 
Johnson, Lieutenant, 276. 

— Mr., 62. 

Johnston, Alexander, Bailie of Campbell- 
town, 264. 
Johnstone, Captain, 323. 

— Mr., 322, 324. 

— Miss, 322, 324. 
Jordan, Lieut.-Colonel, 226. 

Justices of the Peace, 353, 358, 364, 365, 
462, 468, 493, 503, 505, 507, 515, 
519, 543- 

Kalynge, Ensign, 205, 275. 

Karver, Lieutenant, 226. 

Keanlochewe, 51, 54. 

Keanlochnidale [?], 409 ; letter from, 241. 

Keir, Duncan, 157. 

— John, 513. 

— Patrick, 513. 

— Walter, 509, 512. 
Keith, Rev. Robert, 429. 
Kellie, Alexander, Earl of, 392. 
Kellisvick-patrick [?], 225. 
Kennedy, Alexander, 247, 248, 258. 

— Donald, 247, 257, 258. 

— Neil, 247. 

— Patrick, 257. 

— Major T?homas, 40, 72, 211, 287, 315, 

326, 341, 342, 344, 370, 382. 

— Clan, 336. 
Keppan, vide Kippen. 
Keppel, Captain, 199. 
Keppoch, 313. 

Ker, Lord Mark, 226. 
Kiel, 332, 333. 
Kilbride, 237. 
Kildun House, 73. 



INDEX. 



563 



Killearn, 436. 

Killiecrankie, 246. 

Killin, 178, 225. 

Killoundan, vide Killundine. 

Killundine, 331. 

Kilmarnock, William, Earl of, 8g, loi, 102, 

127. 
Kilmarnock, 177. 
Kincardineshire, 353, 413, 515, 520, 546, 

547- 
King, Lieutenant, 206. 
Kingairloch, 292, 332. 
Kingston, Evelyn, Duke of, 4. 
Kingston, the, 381. 
Kinloch, 327. 
Kinlochleven, 292. 
Kinloch Moidart, 72, 332. 
Kinnaird, James, Bailie of Inverness, 135. 
Kinneir, Captain, 206, 276. 
Kintail, 51, 180, 220, 336. 
Kintore, John, Earl of, 357, 520, 521, 546. 
Kintyre, 260. 

Kippen, 158, 181, 192, 203. 
Kirkcaldy, 119. 
Kirkpatrick, William, 539. 
Kirkwall, 63, 195. 
Kirriemuir, 500. 
Kishorn, 51. 
Kissern, vide Kishorn. 
Knatchbull, Captain, 276. 
Knock, 332. 

Knoidart, 12, ,26, 51, 291, 313, 334, 406. 
Knowler, Captain, 297, 390. 

La Bellone, 149. 
Laforcy, Colonel, 199. 
La Frosette, Major, 36. 
Laggan, 331. 
Laing, Thomas, 394. 

— Rev. — , of Puttachy, 428. 
Lamont, Mr., 409. 

Lancize (or La Luize), Chevalier de, letters 

of, 171, 172, 180. 
Lane, Lieutenant, 205, 276. 
Laroch [?], 333. 

Lascelles, Colonel Peregrine, 106, 199. 
Lauderdale, James, Earl of, letter of, 104. 
Laurence, Lieutenant, 205, 276. 
Law, Rev. William, 429. 
Lawrence, Lord, 206. 

— Ensign, 24, 173. 

Leader, Captain St. John, 511 ; letter of, 

501. 
Lee, Colonel, 99, 100. 

— Ensign, 206, 276. 
Leigh, Quartermaster, 226. 
Leighton, Lieut. -Colonel, 34, 201, 205. 
Leith, George, 61, 100, 108. 

— Lawrence, 61, 108. 



Leith, Patrick, 61, 100, 108. 

Leith, 235, 261, 268, 269, 272, 297, 329, 389, 

429. 
Lenten, Herritage, 126, 173. 
Leominster, Thomas, Lord, 206, 275. 
Leslie, James, 358, 536, 539. 

— Captain, 205, 276. 
Letterfinlay, 202. 
Lettermore, 333. 

Leven, Alexander, Earl of, 352. 

Lever, Lord, 358. 

Lewdat, James, 351. 

Lewis, 232, 268, 269, 366. 

L'Heureux, French privateer, 236, 237, 240, 
242, 243, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 
269, 271, 273, 279, 280, 282, 293, 
295. 

Liege, engagement near, 285, 290. 

Lightfoot, John, 150. 

Ligonier, Sir John, 2. 

Lindsay, David, 319. 

— Hercules, 537. 

— Patrick, 162, 167 ; letter to, 191. 

— Peter, 400. 

— of Woringston [?], 400. 
Linlithgow, 119, 150, 182, 202, 399, 460. 
Littler, Ensign, 206, 276. 
Livingston, Rev. — , of Old Deer, 428. 
Livingstone, Mr., 541. 

Lloyd, Captain, 33, 154, 155, 179. 

Lochaber, 11, 228, 229, 230, 239, 241, 270, 
291. 299, 313, 314, 333, 339, 340. 
371. 372, 373> 384. 401. 426, 443, 
469, 483, 484, 491, 492, 527. 

Loch Arkaig, 27, 92, 216, 228, 230, 238, 
239, 265, 268, 271, 282, 327, 334, 
337) 346> 372, 412 ; French treasure 
concealed at, 64, 228, 272, 273, 
282, 291, 293, 295, 299, 300, 304, 
312, 326, 331, 332, 337-39, 346, 

349. 372, 375. 376. 465. 469. 471. 

506, 527. 
Loch Boisdale, 11, 74, 75, 237, 240, 269. 
Loch Broom, 15, 32, 39, 53, 171, 230, 393, 

408, 409, 410 ; letters from, 50, 52, 

58. 
Loch Carron, 51, 54. 
Loch Earn, 178. 
Loch Eil, 327, 333. 
Loch Ericht, 291. 
Locherrick, vide Loch Ericht. 
Lochgarry, 336. 
Loch Lochy, 291. 
Lochnanuagh, 64, 228, 238, 240, 241, 264, 

265, 267, 268, 271, 273, 279, 293, 

410, 478, 489, 525. 
Loch Ness, 502. 
Loch Nevis, 408. 
Loch Oich, 26. 



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Index. 



Loch Skiport, 8i. 

Loch Torridon, 51, 54. 

Loch Turaden, vide Loch Torridon. 

Loch Uskavagh, 74, 75. 

Lockhart, Alexander, 405, 467, 535. 

— Captain, 323. 

— Major, 336. 
Logierait, 250, 251. 

London, City of, gifts to the army in Scot- 
land, 297. 

Longside, 428. 

Loo, H.M.S., 64, 269. 

Lord Advocate, the, vide Grant, William. 

Lord Justice-Clerk, the, vide Fletcher, 
Andrew. 

Lord President of the Court of Session, the, 
vide Forbes, Duncan. 

Lort, Lieutenant, 206, 276. 

Loudoun, John, Earl of, 11, 12, 64, 98, 147, 
148, 179, 190, 195, 196, 214, 230, 

296, 337> 363- 369- 383- 384. 413, 
431, 432, 433, 434, 452, 537 ; letters 
of, 90, no, 125, 135, 180, 231, 237, 
243, 355 ; letters to, 89, 213, 237, 
243, 351. 

Louini, vide UHeureux. 

Lovat, Simon, Lord, 72, 104, no, 127, 214, 
226, 339, 397, 425, 426, 427, 484 ; 
his trial before a Grand Jury of 
Inverness suggested, 421 ; impeach- 
ment of, 427, 433, 436 ; witnesses 
for the trial of, 287, 316, 349, 355, 
356, 363. 369, 384. 424> 426, 430, 
431. 432, 433> 434. 435. 436- 

— Master of, vide Fraser, Simon. 
Lovett, Quartermaster, 205, 275. 
Lucas, Captain, 150. 

Lude, Charlotte Robertson , Lady, depositions 

against, 244 et seq. 
Lude, 247, 248, 250, 257. 
Lugton, Simon, 394. 
Luss, 397. 

Lynch, Captain, 271, 273. 
Lyon, Rev. Robert, 400. 
Lyon, Braes of, 225. 

Macaddam, Lieutenant, 205. 
Macallester, Mr., 260. 
Macalpin, Gilnaouth, 240. 

— Niven, 264, 265. 
Macassec, Rev. — , 334. 
Macaulay, Angus, 70. 
Macbean, Benjamin, 424, 425, 426. 

— Major, 425, 426. 
Macbeth, Ensign, 207. 
Maccoll, John More, 229. 
Maccon, James, 239, 240. 
Maccormac, Donald, 394. 
Macculloch, Mr., 195. 



Macculloch of Glailich [?], 319. 
Macdonald, ^neas, 70, 72, 138, 210, 287. 

— Alexander, of Boisdale, 69, 70, 71, 

75, 156, 296. 

— Alexander, of Garigol [?], 71. 

— Alexander, of Glenaladale, 241, 271, 

279. 334- 

— Alexander, of Keppoch, 241, 312, 

333. 338. 

— Alexander, of Kingsburgh, 55, 345. 

— Sir Alexander, of Sleat, 262, 263, 

294. 295, 296, 298, 324, 326, 335, 
339, 408 ; letter of, 259. 

— Captain Allan, of Keppoch, 334. 

— Allan, of Morar, 98, 155. 

— Allan, of Knock, 70. 

— Rev. Allan, 73, 409. 

— Angus, 250. 

— Angus, 264. 

— Archibald, 264. 

— Charles, 536. 

— Captain Donald, of Castletown, 336. 

— Captain Donald, of Clanranald, 297, 

316, 341, 343, 345, 370, 382. 

— Donald, of Kinloch Moidart, 394, 

399. 419- 

— Donald, tailor, 270, 368 [?], 371 [?]. 

— Donald, letters of, 240, 241. 

— Donald, 394. 

— Donald Roy, 72. 

— Duncan, 247, 258. 

— Flora, II, 37, 39, 55, 75, 76, 262, 297. 

— Francis, 70. 

— Hugh, of Armadale, 69. 

— Captain James, of Aird, 336. 

— John, 70. 

— John, of Benbecula, 71. 

— Captain John, of Kirkibost, 336. 

— Captain John, 343. 

— Ranald, of Clanranald, 39, 69, 70, 82, 

262, 334, 410; letter to, 259. 

— Lady, 38, 39, 69, 70, 71, 81, 409. 

— Ranald, younger of Clanranald, 240, 

241, 265, 268, 270, 271, 272, 273, 
279, 282, 289, 291, 296, 334, 346, 
372- 

— Captain Ranald, of Morar, 85, 98, 

155- 

— Roderick, 70. 

— Ronald, Bailie of Benbecula, 69, 70. 

— Captain Ronald, of Clanranald, 74, 

164 [?]. 

— Ronald, of Garrifluch [?], 70. 

— Rory, 237. 

— of Croulin, 334. 

— of Morinish [?], 334. 

— Bishop, 268, 273, 470, 525. 
— r Collector, 240. 

— Ensign, 99. 



INDEX. 



565 



Macdonald, Ensign, 275. 

— Clan, 292, 303, 306, 307, 311, 313, 

332, 334. 337. 372, 422, 526, 527, 
528. 
Macdonell, ^neas, of Scotus, 242, 291, 334; 
letter of, 343. 

— Alexander, younger of Glengarry, 86, 

405- 

— Alexander, of Ochtera [?], 334, 406. 

— Allan, son of Scotus, 334, 406. 

— Angus, son of Glengarry, 86, 405, 

406. 

— Angus, brother of Glengarry, 338. 

— Angus, brother of Lochgarry, 334. 

— Don, cousin of Ardnabie [?], 406. 

— Donal, of Teirnadreish, 394, 399. 

— Donald, of Lundie, 334, 406. 

— Donald, of Scotus, 87. 

— James, son of Glengarry, 406. 

— ■ Archibald, younger of Barrisdale, 241, 
244, 266, 268, 272, 279, 305, 334, 

335, 478. 

— John, of Glengarry, 72, 86, 87, 88, 

212, 288, 325, 407; information 
against, 405. 

— John, younger of Scotus, 241, 305, 

334. 335. 406. 

— Ronald, brother of Glengarry, 406. 

— Ronald, of Shian, 87, 334, 406. 

— of Ardnabie [?], 261. 

— of Barrisdale, 38, 87, 125, 190, 213, 

215, .219, 233, 240, 241, 244, 262, 

266, 268, 272, 279, 284, 305, 334, 

335, 406, 418, 478, 492. 

— of Lochgarry, 11, 26, 27, 72, 241, 

244, 261, 266, 268, 281, 282, 293, 
304. 335. 401. 406. 

— of Tullochrom, 238. 

— Clan, 292, 313, 334, 406, 422, 484, 

527. 528. 
Macdougall, Mrs., 330, 338, 349, 428. 
Macdowall, Andrew, 535. 

— Charles, 539. 

— Peter, 538. 
Maceachain, Neil, 75. 
Maceuan, Alexander, 253. 

— James, 253. 
-;- Robert, 252. 

Macfarlane, William, 252. 
Macgachan, Charles, 70. 

— Ronald, 69, 70, 74. 
Macghie, Mr., 132. 
Macgilleraydule, Dugal Roy, 288. 
Macgillivray, Clan, 422, 426. 
Macgregor, James, of Glengyle, 319, 338. 

— James Drummond, of Balnacoul, 320. 

— Robert Murray, of Glencarnoch [?], 

320. 

— Rob Roy, 27. 



Macgregor, Corporal, 351. 

— Clan, 289, 312, 349, 384, 397. 
Machevoul, John, 268, 292. 
Macjames, John, 434. 

Mackay, Captain Alexander, 207, 277, 351. 

— Captain George, 12, 50, 51, 217, 232, 

503, 504 ; letter of, 58. 

— Hugh, 165. 

— Ensign, 275. 

— Major, 107. 

— Lieutenant, 323. 

— Clan, 330. 
Mackeizig, Duncan, 70. 
Mackellar, Neil, 224. 
Mackendrick, Clan, 336. 

Mackenzie, Alexander, of Ballone, 51, 52. 

— Sir Alexander, of Coul, 314. 

— Alexander, of Fairburn, 314. 

— Alexander, of Muirtown, 314. 

— Alexander, of Ord, 314. 

— Rev. Alexander, 429. 

— Callum, 157. 

— CoHn, of Kilcoy, 314. 

— Captain Colin, letter of, 269, 

— Colin Roy, 52. 

— Donald, 157. 

— Donald, 394. 

— Duncan, 158. 

— George, of Allangrange, 314. 

— James, of Carrie [?], 319. 

— Rev. James, 429. 

— John, of Balmaduthy, 314. 

— Rev. John, 249. 

— John, 46. 

— Kenneth, 50, 52. 

— Lewis, of Scatwell, 314. 

— Murdoch, 51, 52. 

— Rod., of Redcastle, 314. 

— Rod., of Scatwell, 314. 

— William, of Suddie, 314. 

— Major William, 60, 277. 

— of Fairfield, 319. 

— Captain, 358. 

— Ensign, 323. 

— Lieutenant, 205. 

— Mr., 141. 

— Clan, 311, 370. 
Mackie, Rev. James, 385, 438. 
Mackinnon, John, of Ellagol, 10, 69, 408. 

— John, of Mackinnon, 10, 69, 71, 407. 

— Lad}', 156, 190. 

— Mr., Excise officer at Leith, 231, 

234- 
Mackintosh, Lady, 71. 

— Alexander, 157. 

— Alexander, 298. 

— Lachlan, 298. 

— Captain, 167. 

— Clan, 311, 422. 



<,66 



INDEX. 



Maclachlan, Alexander, Aide-de-Camp to 
Prince Charles, 335, 445 [?]. 

— Archibald, 400. 

— John, letters of, 26, 265. 

— Laird of, 373. 

— Mr., son-in-law to the Governor of 

Fort William, 72, 303, 339. 

— Rev. — , 334. 

— Clan, 311. 
Maclaren, Duncan, 249. 

— John, 175. 
Maclean, Allan, 37, 240. 

— Jerlvick, 231. 

— John, 70. 

— Lachlan, of Kingairloch, 224. 

— Lachlan, of the May, 265, 272 ; letter 

of, 278. 

— Lachlan, 238. 

— Clan, 303, 311, 331, 332. 
Macleod, Alexander, 52. 

— Donald, of Bernera, 319. 

— Donald, of Gualtergill, 70, 72, 73. 

— Hugh, of Geanies, 314. 

— John, 52. 

— Captain John, of Talisker, 69, 240, 

241, 269, 297, 336 ; letter to, 278. 

— Malcolm, of Raasa, 319. 

— Captain Malcolm, 69. 

— Murdoch, younger of Raasa, 319. 

— Captain Norman, of Bernera, 336. 

— Captain Norman, of Waterstone, 336. 

— Laird of, 148, 296, 339, 422. 

— Lieutenant, 323. 

— Clan, 422, 527, 528. 
Macmahon, Lieutenant Morgan, 98. 
Macmasters, Allan, 239. 
Macnab, Captain, 207. 

Macmillan, Alexander, Deputy Keeper ot 
the Signet, 363, 369, 430, 431, 432, 

433, 434- 

— Duncan, 238. 

Macneil, Donald, of Colonsay, 224. 

— Lachlan, Provost of Campbelltown, 

264. 

— Captain, 38, 76, 408. 
Macoloney, Donald Roy, 347. 

— Dougal, 337, 347. 
Macpherson, Donald, of Breakachy, 291. 

— Donald, of Cluny, 270. 

— Ewen, of Cluny, 229, 231, 239, 241, 

261, 266, 268, 270, 271, 280, 281, 
282, 289, 291, 292, 293, 295, 299, 
300, 312, 326, 336, 337, 338, 346, 

372, 373. 375, 376, 433, 44°, 443, 
446, 468, 469, 470, 471, 492, 527, 
528. 

— Captain, 167. 

— Clan, 292, 312, 336, 337, 422, 469. 
Macqueen, Rev. — , of Stirling, 380. 



Macrievre, Duncan, 70. 

Macvicar, Duncan, Collector of Customs at 
Fort William, 238, 304, 339 ; letter 
of, 470. 

Macvurych, Lachlan, 70. 

Macwarish, John, 394. 

Main, Lieutenant, 226. 

Maitland, Charles, 104, 358, 536. 

Majoribank's regiment in the Dutch ser- 
vice, 323. 

Makerston, 201. 

Male, Surgeon, 205. 

Man, William, 109. 

Manning, Lieutenant, 206, 275, 

Manvi^ood, John, 496. 

Marshall, Robert, Bailie of Perth, 507, 510. 

March, William, Earl of, 460, 539. 

Martin, Ensign John, 400. 

— John, 324. 

— Admiral, 393. 

— Ensign, 206. 
Maryburgh, 400, 
Mason, Mr., 63. 

Masterton, Francis, of Parkmiln, 320. 

— Captain, 95, 119. 
Mathewson, Lieutenant, 207. 
Matthews, Ensign, 205, 275. 
Matty, the, of Glasgow, 100. 
Maurice, Rev. — , 206, 276. 
Maxwell, Lieutenant, 276. 

— Mr., 72. 

May, the, of Glasgow, 265, 272, 278 et seq. 

Mearns, 353. 

Medical men with the Jacobite forces, 394, 

399- 
Mellaneuir, 284. 
Menzies, Archibald, of Shian, 319. 

— James, of Woodend, 319. 

— Captain, 167. 

— Mrs., of Culdairs, 338. 
Merrie, Lieutenant, 275. 
Midleton, George, of Seton, 537. 
Midmar Castle, vide Grantsfield. 

Miller, George, Sheriff-Depute of Perth, 

358, 413. 414, 493, 501, 502, 507, 
515 ; letters to, 497, 498, 499, 501, 
516. 

— G. W., Clerk of Court, Perth, 17, 

419, 510. 

— Thomas, 536, 538. 

— Walter, pro-Fiscal of Perth, 507, 510. 

— Captain, 26, 104, 332. 
Mingary Castle, 331, 409. 

Minto, Lord, vide Elliot, Sir Gilbert. 
Mirabel, The History of Prince, 44. 
Mirabelle de Gordon, M., 72. 
Mitchell, Sir Andrew, 536. 

— Ensign, 206, 275. 
Moffat, 200. 



INDEX. 



567 



Moidart, 38, 239, 241, 272, 299, 303, 313, 

332, 37i> 373- 
Moir, James, of Stoneywood, 319. 
Molloy, Lieutenant, 206, 276. 
Monmouthshire, 200. 
Monro, Captain George, of Culcairn, 12, 

53. 58, 145. 190, 218, 232, 277, 

284 ; letter of, 50 ; letter to, 52 ; 

murder of, 214, 216, 220, 230, 288, 

.299> 304. 337. 347- 

— Sir Henry, 207, 277, 314, 329, 425, 

503, 504- 

— Ensign Hugh, of Achany, 218. 

— John, of Killachonan [?], 218. 

— Sir Robert, 2, 4, 215. 

— Clan, 299, 330. 
Monteith, 178. 
Montgomery, James, 536. 

— Captain, 275. 

— Lieutenant, 275. 
Montressor, Lieutenant, 206. 
Montrose, William, Duke of, 384. 
Montrose, 20, 28, 60, 99, 104, 109, 122, 146, 

147, 202, 315, 404, 413, 501 ; letters 

from, 19, 103. 
Monzie, Lord, 358, 539. 
Moody, Hatch, 63, ig6 [?] ; letter of, 153. 

— Captain, 32. 

Moore, Lieutenant, 206, 275. 

Morar, 11, 12, 37, 51, 371, 401, 408, 410. 

Moray, James, Earl of, 541. 

Moray, 505. 

Mordaunt, Brigadier John, 11, 17, 22, 55, 

99, 143, 164, 175, 384, 397 ; letters 

of, 16, 43, 65. 
Mordington, Lord, vide Douglas, Charles. 
Morgan, David, 24. 

— Captain Hugh, 28, 29, 30, 82, 83, 89, 

117, 121, 193 ; letter of, 197. 

— Lieutenant, 206. 

Morison, James, Provost of Aberdeen, 32, 
41. 57. 77, 105, 117, 123, 133, 134, 
185, 195. 

Morlaix, 393. 

Morris, Lieutenant, 205, 275. 

Morven, 228, 229, 303, 331, 332, 372. 

Mosman, Major, 107, 206, 276. 

Moubray, Mr., 339. 

Mowat, William, Bailie of Aberdeen, 32, 

41. 57. 77. 117- 
Moy, 71. 
Muchalls, 548. 

Mull, 37, 82, 140, 234, 236, 238, 303, 367. 
Murdoch, Ensign, 206, 276. 
Murray, Anthony, 'of Grange, 319. 

— Lord George, 184, 244, 245, 246, 258, 

33G. 

— James, 399. 

— Lord John, 92, 140. 



Murray, John, of Broughton, 13, 228, 338, 
363. 373. 391. 392, 406, 423, 424, 

433. 441. 442- 

— John, of Dunning, examination of, 

for sedition, 493, 495, 497. 

— Mungo, of Kincairney, 319. 

— Sir Pal., 167. 

— Patrick, of Dullary [?], 365. 

— Patrick, 399. 

— Sir Richard, 197, 198. 

— Robert, 399. 

— William, of Taymount, 319. 

— Captain, 180. 

— Miss, 324. 
Musselburgh, 413, 429. 

Nairn, 202 ; letter from, 3. 
Nairne, John, Lord, 316. 

— LadyDowager of, depositions against, 

244 et seq. 
Naizon, Colonel Peter, 61, 151, 184; letters 

of, 115, 177. 
Nangis, Chevalier de, 46. 
Napier, David, 449, 450, 451. 

— Gabriel, 358. 

— Colonel, 34. 
Newburgh, 202. 

Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-HoUes, Duke 
of, 4 ; letters of, 7, 136, 549 ; letters 
to, 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, II, 14, 68, 97, 
154, 214, 220, 227, 235, 242, 262, 
267, 269, 278, 284, 286, 294, 298, 
299. 301, 315. 321. 325, 328, 329, 
341. 344. 347. 348, 352, 353. 354. 
356, 363. 366, 368, 374, 377, 381, 
382, 385, 389, 392, 395, 397, 398, 
400, 401, 404, 410, 411, 414, 415, 
421, 423, 426, 427, 430, 431, 432, 

434. 436, 438, 439, 446. 447. 449, 
451, 452, 453, 460, 462, 466, 468, 
471. 492, 505, 507. 515. 518, 524, 
526, 528, 529, 542, 543, 550. 

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 145, 179, 381. 

Newton, Captain, 199. 

Newton, 50. 

Nicol, Walter, of Aberdeen, 76, 77, 78, 109, 

121, 195. 
Nicoll, James, Bailie of Aberdeen, 57, 117, 

^95- 

Nightingall, Ensign, 206. 

Noble, Captain, 85. 

Nonjuring Meeting-houses and ministers, 
463, 474. 498, 507. 515. 516, 517, 
518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 529, 

530, 531, 546, 547- 
Nunton, 39. 

Gates, Ensign, 276. 



568 



INDEX. 



O'Brien, Captain James, 211, 287, 344, 345, 
370.. 382. 

— Captain, 268, 271. 
Ocolgan, Rev. — , 470. 
Ogilvie, Thomas, of Coul, 13, 48. 
Ogilvy, John, titular Earl of Airlie, 65, 397, 

400, 470. 

— Lady, 71, 321, 324, 330. 

— of Pool, 358. 

— Ensign, 206, 276. 
Ogle, Lieutenant, 205, 275. 
Oglethorpe, Major-General, 168, 174. 
Old Aberdeen, 28. 

Old Deer, 428. 
Old Meldrum, 428. 
Oliphant of Gask, 256, 316. 

— Captain, 275. 

Oman, Lieutenant, 195, 205, 275. 

O'Neil, Captain Felix, 37, 69, 81, 84, 93, 
209, 211, 287, 315, 341, 342, 344, 
370, 382, 409 ; his narrative of 
Prince Charles's flight after Cul- 
loden, 71 et seq. 

Ord, letter from, 240. 

Orkneys, 32, 63, 73. 

Ormaclett, 75. 

Orr, James, 393. 

Orrock, Ensign, 112. 

O'Sullivan, Colonel, 73, 75. 

Otter, John S., 224. 

Ottley, Ensign, 199. 

Oughton, Captain, 206, 276. 

Ouia, Island, 74. 

Paget, Captain, 275. 

Parker, Captain Edward, letter of, 360. 

Parr, Captain, 144. 

Paterson, Sir Hugh, 442. 

— James, letter of, 230. 
Patton, Robert, 500. 
Patullo, Henry, 319. 
Paxton, Mr., 301. 
Pearson, Alexander, 400. 
Peebles, 454, 459. 

Pelham, Henry, i, 4, 9, 357, 358, 460, 480. 

Perth, James, (titular) Duke of, 3, 149, 178, 
184, 400. 

Perth, II, 17, 65, 97, iig, 154, 184, 202, 
244, 250, 256, 260, 296, 336, 384, 
394. 397. 404. 413. 426, 440, 465, 
493. 495, 498, 507, 5". 515. 5i6; 
letters from, i, 16, 43, 65, 141, 166, 
175, 176, 189, 212. 

Perthshire, 501. 

Peterhead, 60, 108, 166, 202, 267, 268, 269, 

273, 465- 
Peterson, Colonel, 151. 
Petrie, Rev. John, 548. 
Philp, John, 217, 218. 



" Pickle the Spy," vide Macdonell, Alex- 
ander. 
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 118. 

— Cornet, 226. 
Plaistow, Lieutenant, 206, 275. 
Plunkenet, Ensign, 206, 275. 
Pole, Captain, 126, 173. 
Pollok, 225. 

Poison, John, 539. 

Poolewe, 15, 26, 27, 230, 238. 

Portree, 55. 

Portsoy, 166, 202. 

Pourie, William, 513. 

— Laird of, 50. 

Powell, Captain Cranfield Spencer, 206, 
219, 240, 242, 276 ; letters of, 128, 
190. 

Prestonpans, battle of, 245, 251, 411. 

Price, Brigadier, 369. 

— Captain, 275. 

— Ensign, 205. 
Priestfield, 268, 272. 

Primrose, Sir Archibald, of Dunipace, 400. 

Prince de Conti, French privateer, 236, 237, 
240, 242, 243, 264, 265, 266, 267, 
268, 269, 271, 273, 279, 280, 282, 

293. 295- 
Pringle, Andrew, 539. 

— Sir James, 65. 

— Sir Robert, of Stitchell [?], 542. 

— Robert, Sheriff- Depute of Banff, 536, 

541- 
— ■ Walter, 542. 

— Lieutenant, 205, 276. 

Prisoners, Jacobite, 34, 38, 55, 57, 61, 63, 
65, 6g, 81, 82, 85, 98, 99, 141, 142, 
150, 197, 287, 301, 315, 317, 318, 
319, 328, 369, 382, 392, 394, 395, 

399, 410, 413. 414. 436, 438- 
Puttachy, 428. 

Queensberry, Charles, Duke of, 95, 538. 

Raasa, 76, 407. 

Rae, Rev. David, 429. 

Raine, John, 98. 

Ramsay, Colonel, 119, 176. 

Randall, Robert, 399. 

Rannoch, 27, 288, 306, 346, 376, 384, 440, 

441, 471. 491, 495- 
Rattray, Thomas, 248. 
Raven, H.M.S., 64, 360, 409. 
Regiments, vide Army. 
Reid, Sir Alexander, 134. 

— Mr., 134. 
Renton, Captain, 206. 
Reynolds, Lieutenant Luke, 382. 
Rhodes, Mr., Commissioner of Excise, 161. 
Rich, Lieut. -Colonel, 205, 276. 



INDEX. 



569 



Richardson, John, 501. 

Richmond, Charles, Duke of, 106 ; letters 

to [?], 3, 6. 
Rider, Surgeon, 275. 
Ridley, Mr., 381. 
Ritchie, George, 445. 

— John, of Links, 320. 

Roads, construction of, in Scotland, 138, 

210. 
Roberts, Ensign, 22. 

— Lieutenant, 206, 276. 

Robertson, Alexander, of Strowan, 320, 337, 

384- 

— Rev. Alexander, 429. 

— Alexander, 244, 247, 258, 259. 

— Charles, 245. 

— Duncan, of Drumnawhine [?], 246, 

252, 254, 319. 

— Duncan, 247, 248, 258. 

— Emilia, 251, 253. 

— George, of Faskally, 319, 337. 

— James, of Plairfellie [?], 319. 

— James, 217. 

— John, Provost of Perth, 250, 495, 507, 

510. 

— Margaret, 253. 

— Thomas (Edinburgh), 394, 399. 

— Thomas (Perth), 513. 

— Captain William, 496. 

— of Woodsheil, 495. 

— Ensign, 324. 

— Lieutenant, 205. 
Robinson, George, 150. 

— John, 98. 

— Neil, 98. 

— Captain, 205, 275. 

— Captain, 276. 

— Lieutenant, 276. 
Rohan, Prince de, 295. 
Romer, Captain, 276. 
Romers, Captain J., 382. 

Roper, Major J., 54, 129, 142, 323, 406; 
letters to, 15, 22, 27, 59, 61, 62, 
96, 123, 132, 143, 186, 191. 

Rose, Hugh, of Kilravock, 354, 355, 369, 

541- 

— Ensign, 323. 
Ross, George, Lord, 329. 

— David, of Inverchasley, 314. 

— Alexander, of Pitcalny, 314. 

— David, of Priesthill, 314. 

— Duncan, of Kindeace, 314. 

— John, 442, 449. 

— Robert, of Achindarach [?], 314. 

— Simon, of Aldie, 314. 

— Thomas, of Calrosy [or Culrossie], 

314- 

— William, of Balnagoun, 314, 

— Captain William, 217. 



Ross, Master of, 314. 

— Clan, 330. 
Rossinish, 73, 75. 

Ross-shire, 302, 313, 329, 383, 425. 

Rothes, John, Earl of, 494. 

Rothiemay, letter from, 156. 

Roy, Corporal, 141, 189. 

Rufane, Major William, 103, 132 ; letters 

of, 62, 96, 179. 
Russell, Francis, 442, 444, 449, 450; letter 

to, 451. 

— Colonel, 187, 199. 

— Mr., 409. 

Ruth's regiment, 296, 475. 

Rutherford, Mr., Commissary of Peebles, 

459- 
Ruthven, 60, 91, 167, 203, 232. 

Sackville, Lord George, 2, 4, 25, 166, 276, 

340 ; letters of, 141, 186, 197. 
St. Andrews, 119. 
St. Clair, Henry, 363. 

— Captain James, 474, 475, 478, 479. 

— General, 205, 275. 

— Rev. — , 226. 

St. George, Cornet, 168, 226. 

— Lieutenant, 226. 
St. Ninians, 119, 385, 438. 
Sallachan [?], 331. 

Salt, Captain, 205, 276, 341, 501. 
Saltoun, letters from, 452, 453, 518. 
Sandford, Captain, 206, 276, 341. 
Sandilands, Captain, 205, 275. 

— Mr., Sheriff-Depute for Lothian, 358. 
Sandwich, H.M.S., 361. 

Saunders, John, 251. 

Savery [?], 332. 

Savi^ers, Anthony, vide Sawyer, Anthony. 

Sawyer, Anthony, 36 [?], 114, 191. 

Scalpay, 73. 

Scarborough, H.M.S., 64. 

Schivas, 218. 

Scots Brigade in Holland, recruiting in 

Scotland for, 317, 321, 322, 323, 

325, 329. 
Scott, Captain Carolina, 11, 12, 16, 58, 75, 

85, 113, 115, 156, 270, 332, 333 ; 

letter of, 25. 

— James, of Dunkeld, depositions 

against, 244 et seq. 

— Mr., 103. 

Scotus, 72 ; letter from, 243. 

Scrymgeour, David, 536, 541. 

Selkirk, Dunbar, Earl of, 538. 

Selkirk, 453, 459. 

Sempill, Hugh, Lord, 21, 104, 108, 117, 

119, 123, 165, 188, 193,214,325; 

letters of, 20, 68, 105, 122, 133, 

170, 185, 193, 



CCCC 



570 



INDEX. 



Sempill, Ensign, 20, 205, 275. 

Semple, Rev. George, process and sentence 

against, 507 et seq., 515, 516. 
Serpent, H.M.S, 32, 52, 64. 
Sharpe, Mr., 355, 430, 431, 435. 
Shaw, Sir John, 538. 
Shea, Captain, 72. 
Sheerness, H.M.S., 148. 
Sheridan, Sir Thomas, 271. 

— Mr., 271. 

Sheriff Courts, proposals for the reform of, 

543-46- 
Sheriffs and Sheriffs-Depute, 301, 315, 316, 
325, 357, 395, 396, 402, 413, 462, 
463, 477, 530, 537, 542, 543- 
Sheriffs of: — 

Aberdeen, 82, gg, 357, 396, 517, 519, 
536, 537- 

Argyll, 358, 366, 367, 536, 539. 

Ayr, 536, 537. 

Banff, 474, 536, 537. 

Berwick, 536, 537, 542. 

Caithness, 536, 537. 

Clackmannan, 537. 

Cromarty, 536. 

Dumbarton, 358, 536, 538. 

Dumfries, 536, 538. 

Edinburgh, 104, 536, 538. 

Elgin, 538. 

Fife, 358, 536, 539. 

Forfar, 357, 536. 

Galloway, 536, 538. 

Haddington, 358, 536, 539. 

Inverness, 315, 540, 542. 

Kincardine, 357, 396, 519, 520, 536. 

Kirkcudbright, 536, 538. 

Lanark, 536, 539. 

Linlithgow, 536, 540. 

Lothian, 358. 

Nairn, 536. 

Orkney, 536. 

Peebles, 536, 539. 

Perth, 358, 501, 536, 539. 

Renfrew, 536, 539. 

Roxburgh, 536, 539, 542. 

Selkirk, 536, 539. 

Stirling, 358, 536, 539. 

Sutherland, 539. 
Shields, 381. 
Shives (or Shevize), Robert, of Muirtown, 

356, 435- 
Shives, vide Schivas. 
Shrewsbury, igg. 
Siletefoord [?], 502. 
Simpson, John, 349; letter of, 351. 

— Lieutenant, 206. 
Sinclair, George, 539. 

— of Muckle, 358. 

— of Ulbster, 537. 



Sinclair, Dr., 65. 

" Sinclair," Prince Charles's incognito, 73. 

Skelton, Major-General H., 175, 186, 214, 

276 ; letters of, 141, 166, 176, 189. 
Skene, Lieutenant, 205, 275. 
Skinner, Rev. — , of Longside, 428. 
Skye, 75, 232, 296, 297, 335, 369, 409, 474, 

525, 527, 528, 540. 
Slocombe, Quartermaster, 205, 275. 
Sloper, Captain, 66, 205, 275. 
Smith, Commodore George, 12, 14, 15, 46, 

51, 52, 69, 81, 94, 140, 156, 236, 

237, 269, 295, 297 ; letters of, 32, 

39, 63. 

— James, W.S., 400. 

— William, 141, 189. 

— Ensign, 205, 275. 

— Lieutenant, 226. 

Snell, Lieutenant, 206, 276, 294. 
Somerville, James, Lord, 414. 
Spalding, Andrew, of Glenkilrie [?], 320. 

— Charles, of Whitefield, 399. 

— Daniel, of Ashintully, 320. 

— Ensign, 323. 

— Mr., 424. 
Spey, River, 3. 
Spittle, Ensign, 205, 275. 
Stair, James, Earl of, 455. 

— James, Viscount, 458. 

— John, Earl of, gs, 164, 451, 452, 455, 

457, 458. 

— John, Earl of, 458. Vide Dalrymple, 

Captain John. 

— Earldom of, disputed succession to, 

455 et seq. 
Stanhope, Colonel, 192. 
Steel, George, 400. 
Stenhouse, Ensign, 323. • 
Stephens, Lieutenant, 205, 276. 
Stevenson, Corporal Moses, 496. 
Stewart, Alexander, of Innernochyle [?], 

320. 

— Rev. Alexander, 245, 246. 

— Archibald, late Lord Provost of Edin- 

burgh, trial of, 466, 467, 468, 472, 

473- 

— Charles, of Gourdie, 320. 

— Charles, secretary to Murray of 

Broughton, 363, 369, 431, 432, 

433- 

— David, of Balorhallan [?], 320. 

— David, of Kynachan [?], 320, 337. 

— Donald, 247, 256, 257, 258. 

— Major James, 400. 

— James, 250, 251, 252. 

— James, Murray of Broughton's butler, 

424, 442. 

— Ensign James, 503, 504. 

— John, of Findynal [?], 320. 



INDEX. 



571 



Stewart, John, of Henton [?], junr., 320. 

— John, Bailie of Perth, 507, 510. 

— Corporal John, 351. 

— John, 394. 

— John Roy, 230, 282, 305, 335, 367, 

368, 373, 495- 

— Robert, of Killiechassie, 320. 

— Captain Robert, 245, 246, 247. 

— Robert, 251. 

— William, of Garth, 320. 

— William, Bailie of Perth, 507, 510. 

— William, 229. 

— of Ardshiel, 229, 239, 282, 289, 291, 

292, 293, 300, 332, 333, 367, 368, 

373. 374, 444. 4^9. 47i- 

— of Ballachulish, 333. 

— of Fasnakyle, 229. 

— of Fasnakyle, junr., 333. 

— of Innernahyle [?], junr., 333. 

— of Stenton, 509. 

— Clan, 292, 312, 337, 338, 484. 
Stirling, James, of Craigbarnet, 320, 445. 
Stirling, 34, 54, 97, 120, 140, 150, 154, 177, 

202, 210, 212, 227, 254, 260, 296, 

377, 397. 399, 403, 4^4, 412, 414, 
448, 450, 539 ; letters from, 33, 119, 
149, 158, 181, 191 ; petition of, 

378, 380. 
Stirlingshire, 507. 

Stone, Andrew, 262, 278, 494 ; letters to, 

.234, 417. 437. 438- 

— Lieutenant, 206, 275. 
Stonehaven, 77, 104, 108, 146, 202, 397, 

413, 519, 548; letter from, 520. 
Stornoway, 73, 393, 409; letter from, 269. 
Stoyt, Lieutenant, 210. 
Strachan, Lieutenant, 205, 275. 
Strang, Ensign Blackfoord, 82. 
Stranraer, 201, 455. 

Strathallan, William, Viscount, 256, 316. 
Strathayre, 444. 

Strathbogie, 97, 144, 169, 218, 311, 371. 
Strathbran, 54. 
Strathclunie, 11. 
Strathearn, 178. 

— Club, 465. 
Strath Ericht, 91. 
Strathglass, 15, 51. 
Strathnairn, 425. 

Strathnaver, William, Lord, 205, 275. 

Strathspey, 91. 

Strauvan [?], 177. 

Strichen, Lord, 83. 

Strontian, 37, 66, 82, 85, 92, 140, 225, 238, 

273. 291, 327, 332, 365, 374, 383 ; 

letter from, 57. 
Stuart, Alexander, 161. 

— Captain John, 277. 

— Rev. John, 374. 



Stuart, Colonel, of Balechan [?], 337, 

— Ensign, 158, 159, 181, 182. 

— Lieutenant, 150. 

— Quartermaster, 58. 

■ Stuart's regiment in the Dutch service, 323. 
Studard, Ensign, 275. 
Sunart, 332. 

Sutherland, William, Earl of, 330, 539 ; 
letter to, 343. 

— Captain John, 60, 232, 277, 351. 

— Clan, 330. 
Sutherlandshire, 384. 
Swinton, John, 541. 
Swinton, 201. 
Sydall, Thomas, 24. 

Tapperosbone, James, 496. 

Tatton, Captain, 206, 276. 

Taybridge, 203, 232, 369, 432 ; letter from, 

443- 
Taylor, James, W.S., 361. 

— Robert, shoemaker, 302, 394, 399. 

— Walter, 496. 
Tempest, Lieutenant, 226. 
Terror, H.M.S., 64. 
Thames, Mr., 390. 
Thoirs, Gilbert, 400. 

— James, 400. 
Thomas, Lieutenant, 206, 275. 
Thompson, Ensign, 276. 
Thomson, Captain, iig. 

. — John, Supervisor of Excise, 109, 121; 
letters of, 144, 159. 

— John, 2i8. 

— Mr., 195. 
Thorne, Captain, 205, 276. 
Thornley, Ensign, 275. 

Thorpe [? Shorpe, or Sharpe], Sir J. L., 

205, 276. 
Threipland, Stewart, of Barnhill, 320. 
Tilbury Fort, letter from, 352. 
Tilson, Rev. — , 205, 275. 
Tilt, Bridge of, 258. 
Tinwald, Lord, 538, 549, 550. 
Tobermory, 37, 46, 239, 240, 303, 331. 
Tomnavoulin, 257, 434. 
Tompson, Lieutenant, 206, 275. 
Tordarroch, 72. 
Tovey, Major, 226, 350. 
Townley, Francis, 24. 
Townshend, Rev. — , 205, 276. 
TowTry, Commodore, 381. 
Traquair, Charles, Earl of, 102. 
Traupaud, Lieutenant, 205, 276. 
Treinhard, Quartermaster, 276. 
Trelawny, Ensign, 126, 164, 173. 
Trial of Jacobite prisoners at Carlisle, vide 

Carlisle. 
Trial, H.M.S., 52, 64, 360, 443. 



572 



INDEX. 



Triton, H.M.S., 32, 64, 341. 

Trobost [? Carbost], letter from, 237. 

Troup, Rev. John, 548. 

Tullibardine, William, Marquis of, 247, 248, 

249, 251, 252, 253, 255. 
Tulloch, David, 147. 
Turin, 13. 
Turnbull, Robert, letters of, 17, 19, 162. 

— Captain, 323. 
Turner, Ensign, 206. 

— Rev. — , of Stirling, 380. 
Tyravi^ley, James, Lord, xo6, 206, 357. 

Uishness Point, 75. 

Uist, 45, 69, 70, 71, 74, 76, 81, 236, 265, 

269, 270, 296, 372, 376, 409. 
Urquhart, Lieutenant, 206. 

— of Meldrum, 537. 

Vane, Mr., 363. 
Veitch, James, 536, 539. 
Vernon, Admiral, 260. 
Vicars, Lieutenant, 275. 
Vickars, Captain, 205. 
Vincent, Mr., 475. 
Vulture, H.M.S., 148. 

Wade, Marshall George, 9, 18, 106, 152, 

153, 168, 199, 259. 
Walker, Andrew, of Aberdeen, 76, 77, 78, 

109, 121, 195. 

— Rev. — , of Old Meldrum, 428. 
Wallace, James, Provost of Stirling, 379. 

— Patrick, late Provost of Arbroath, 

320. 

— William, 539. 
Walsh, Lieutenant, 205, 275. 

War Office, letters from, 106, 112, 168, 174. 
Ward, Captain, 205, 276. 

— Ensign, 206. 

Warren, Colonel, 236, 240, 268, 271, 279, 

280, 295. 
Waterson, Thomas, 496. 
Watson, Lieut.-Colonel David, 503. 

— John, of Turin, 13. 

— John, of Muirhouse, 467. 

— Colonel, 122, 189, 467. 

— Mr., 141. 



Watt, John, 500. 

Waugh, William, Towrn Clerk of Selkirk, 

453. 459- 
Webb, Philip Carteret, 8, 100, 395, 402, 

404, 415, 416, 418 ; letters to, 418, 

420. 
Webster, Rev. — , 394. 
Wedderburn, Sir John, 320. 
Weeks, Lieutenant Marks, 520, 521. 
Wemyss, Captain James, 397. 
Wentworth, Captain, 275. 

— Lieut.-General, 354, 369, 371, 383. 

— Major, 166, 227, 270. 
West, Cornet, 226. 
Wheelock, Captain, 476. 
Whitefoord, Alan, 113, 115. 

— Lieut.-Colonel Charles, 107. 
Wilkinson, Colonel J., letter of, 118. 
Williams, Captain, 205. 

— Lieutenant, 206, 275. 
Wills, Lieutenant, 226. 
Willson, Captain, 163. 

Wilson, Captain Alexander, letter of, 131. 

— Corporal Adam, 501. 

— Alexander, 189. 

— Robert, 509. 

— Major, 192. 

— Sergeant, 117. 
Winde, Lieutenant, 226. 
Winder, Rev. — , 206, 276. 
Wingate, Rev. James, 429. 
Wolfe, Captain James, 276. 
Wood, Mark, 509. 

— Ensign, 206, 275. 
Worth, Lieutenant, 196. 

Wright, Lieut.-Colonel James, letter of, 
118. 

— James, 400. 

— Robert, 400. 



York, 164. 

— Building Company, 217. 
Yonge, Sir William, 118. 
Young, John, Sheriff-Depute of Kincardine, 
519, 546, 547 f letter of, 520 ; letter 
to, 522. 
Yule, Mr., 419. 



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